The War of the Worlds by Herbert Wells
The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.
Content
Book One
The Coming of the Martians
Chapter 6 The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
Chapter 12 What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
Chapter 13 How I fell in with the Curate
Chapter 15 What had Happened in Surrey
Chapter 16 The Exodus from London
Chapter 17 The «Thunder Child»
Book Two
The Earth under the Martians
Chapter 2 What We Saw from the Ruined House
Chapter 3 The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter 4 The Death of the Curate
Chapter 6 The Work of Fifteen Days