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        The War of the Worlds


        setting

        London, England

        time

        19th century

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1898

        page count

        192

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Narrator, Narrator's Brother, Martians, Curate

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

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