CHAPTER XV The Scowl and Smile SEVERAL days passed over the Seven Gables, heavily and drearily enough. In fact (not to attribute the whole gloom of sky and earth to the one inauspicious circumstance...
BOOK ONE DAWN CHAPTER 3 THE FALL OF ROME 1. EDDORE Like two high executives of a Tellurian corporation discussing business affairs during a chance meeting at one of their clubs, Eddore's All...
BOOK ONE DAWN CHAPTER 2 THE FALL OF ATLANTIS 1. EDDORE "Members of the innermost circle, wherever you are and whatever you may be doing, tune in!" the All-Highest broadcast....
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER TEN THE EPILOGUE I cannot but regret, now that I am concluding my story, how little I am able to contribute to the discussion of the many debatable...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER NINE WRECKAGE And now comes the strangest thing in my story. Yet, perhaps, it is not altogether strange. I remember, clearly and coldly and vividly, all...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER EIGHT DEAD LONDON After I had parted from the artilleryman, I went down the hill, and by the High Street across the bridge to Fulham. The red weed was...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER SIX THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS For some time I stood tottering on the mound regardless of my safety. Within that noisome den from which I had emerged I had...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER FIVE THE STILLNESS My first act before I went into the pantry was to fasten the door between the kitchen and the scullery. But the pantry was empty; every...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER FOUR THE DEATH OF THE CURATE It was on the sixth day of our imprisonment that I peeped for the last time, and presently found myself alone. Instead of...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER THREE THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT The arrival of a second fighting-machine drove us from our peephole into the scullery, for we feared that from his...