... n they are hungry they take them out. They do not speak to one another, their hooting and holing is the noise they make hen preparing to eat.The to men lie for some days in the ruins of the house ith only a little food. The riter tries to force the curate to ration out the food and drink but he is hysterical and undisciplined and in the end he becomes mad. He starts to shriek and sing one day so that the riter kills him ith the butt of an axe. A Martian has heard the noise and climbs into the kitchen to search. The riter hides in the coal-cellar and hears the Martian lokking for him and carrying off the curates dead body. On the fifteenth day he hears a dog and at last ventures out to find the place in ruins, a red eed groing over everything and a terrible stillness. He anders through the deserted streets of London, passing many dead bodies and breaking into houses for remains of food. He again meets the artilleryman ho has some strange philosophic ideas of the future of Man under Martian government. He thinks a company of intellegent scientists should live in the drains of London and not give in to the Martian rulers. The riter spends the night ith him playing cards and drinking. But then he feels to be a traitor to his ife and his kind if he hides in the drains of London and apart from that he doesnt think that the ideas of the artilleryman ont be realizable. He decides to leave this strange dreamer and goes on into London to learn hat the Martians and the rest of the humans are doing. On his ay he encounters a Martian standing still and holing and he realizes that it is dying. Then he sees dogs eating the remains of other dead Martians and realizes that the end of the ar has come. The Martians are not able to resist the disease bacteria of the earth. He comes to a huge rampart hich they have made and sees their recked machines and about fifty Martians lying dead at the bottom. There is also a great flying machine ith hich they have been experimenting.The riter stands praising God and eeping and then loses his mind. He is found by some kind people ho take care of him for some time. hen he recovers they tell him that Leatherhead has been quite destroyed. He goes back in despair to his empty house in oking and hile he is standing by the indo he sees his ife come in. In the meantime the joyful nes of the Martians defeat has been sent to all the other cities of the orld and food is sent to England to the starving people. Bread is distributed from the churches and the Londoners stream back to London. The riter thinks that there is still a danger of another invasion from Mars, and that it is a good thing that the inhabitants of the earth are no longer complacent in their feeling of security and that they have benefited by the knoledge of the machines hich the Martians brought ith them. ... Download