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Sat Oct 05 08:43:37 CEST 2019
Thu Oct 03 14:06:26 CEST 2019
Sun Sep 29 14:36:32 CEST 2019
Fri Sep 27 13:40:18 CEST 2019
Tue Sep 17 10:43:11 CEST 2019
English: Three things like shapes of fire.
English: It was a strange vertebrated animal.
English: The sphere twisted, and then threw him down.
English: They were prostrating themselves before him, all save one.
Tue Sep 10 16:25:09 CEST 2019
English: By H. G. Wells.
English: " 'What are you doing here?' I said."
English: "He said he woudn't sit down; he'd prefer to flit up and down the room."
English: "I got the queerness of it full."
English: "I was alone."
English: "He stood there, very gentle swaying."
Thu Sep 05 12:29:52 CEST 2019
English: I ran slantingly and stumbling.
English: The mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion...
English: The death seemed leaping from man to man.
English: I began a stumbling run through the heather.
English: One or two adventurous souls never returned.
English: Wiped out!
English: Signalling with a flag on a long pole.
English: Suddenly the trees in the pinewood were parted.
English: Huge, black shapes moved busily to and fro.
English: He saw this one pursue a man and catch him up in one of its steely tentacles.
English: "Hit!" shouted I.
English: As the camera of the heat-ray hit the water...
English: The four carrying the debris of their comrade between them.
English: The Martians appear to be moving slowly towards Chertsey or Windsor.
English: Five of the machines had been seen moving towards the Thames.
English: The Martians are able to discharge enormous clouds of a black and poisonous vapour.
English: And through this two Martians slowly waded and turned their hissing jets this way and that.
English: A strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims.
English: They wrecked the railways.
English: They were all stalking seaward.
English: It hit her larboard side.
English: In another moment he was cut down.
English: They were the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive.
English: I hurried through the red weed.
English: Nearly fifty together in that great gulf.
English: I extended my hands towards the sky.
Thu Sep 05 11:27:26 CEST 2019
English: Title Page
English: Martians Blast House
English: Martian in the Forest
English: Martians on the Move
English: Martian Gas Cannon
English: Martian Machine Over the Thames
English: Death of Curate
English: Abandoned London
Thu Sep 05 10:22:14 CEST 2019
English: Dead Martians, from The War of the Worlds, Belgium edition, 1906 Pencil and ink on paper laid on cardstock 12.25 x 10.125 in. (sheet) Signed and dated lower right The War of the Worlds Archive This illustration is featured in Book II: The Earth Under the Martians, Chapter IX: "Wreckage," 1906.
English: Humans Dissecting Martian War Machines, from The War of the Worlds, Belgium edition, 1906 Pencil and ink on paper 13.5 x 10.5 in. (sheet) Bears artist's studio stamp lower right The War of the Worlds Archive This illustration was featured in Book II: The Earth Under the Martians, Chaper IX: "Wreckage," 1906.
Wed Sep 04 03:12:28 CEST 2019
English: Henrique Alvim Corrêa's title graphic for Book I.
Livre premier — L'arrivée des Marsiens.
English: The Martians start their journey to attack earth.
English: The first "falling star" is seen over the rooftops of London.
English: The mysterious "thing" that has landed in the sand-pits.
English: The first Martian emerges from the cylinder.
English: The Martian's heat-ray disperses the crowd.
English: The first victims of the Martian heat-ray.
English: The heat-ray in the Chobham Road.
English: A woman in the clutches of a Martian.
English: The Martians are seen to be working at night.
English: A monstrous tripod striding over the young pine trees.
English: A Martian fighting-machine in action.
English: A Martian fighting machine over the Channel.
English: A Martian fighting-machine destroyed by a shell.
English: Martian fighting machines in the Thames Valley.
English: The Martians fire their gas-guns.
English: A Martian fighting machine over the flooding Thames.
English: Thunder Child battling a Martian fighting-machine.
English: The torpedo-boat's brave attack on the Martians.
English: The fall of the fifth Martian cylinder.
English: A Martian handling-machine at work.
English: The curate lies unconscious on the scullery floor.
English: A Martian handling-machine finds a victim.
English: The red weed.
English: A Martian machine contemplates the drunken crowd.
English: Dead London devastated by the Martian attack.
English: A wrecked Martian handling-machine.
English: London deserted.
English: Dead Martians in their machines.
English: The fighting-machines harmless without their Martian crews.
English: Londoners examine the dead Martians' machines.
