The WAR of the WORLDS
By H. G. Wells
Author of "Under the Knife," "The Time Machine," etc.
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A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And, scattered about, some in their over-turned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them start and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!
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