- Year Published: 1898 - Language: English - Country of Origin:
England - Source: Wells, H. G. (1898). The War of the Worlds.
London, England: Chapman and Hall. - Flesch–Kincaid Level: 9.0 -
Word Count: 1,266 Wells, H. (1898). Book Two—The Earth Under the
Martians, Chapter 6: The Work of Fifteen Days. The War of the
Worlds (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved May 23, 2013, from Wells,
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1898. Web. <>. May 23, 2013. H.G. Wells, "Book Two—The Earth
Under the Martians, Chapter 6: The Work of Fifteen Days," The
War of the Worlds, Lit2Go Edition, (1898), accessed May 23,
2013,. For some time I stood tottering on the mound regardless
of my safety. Within that noisome den from which I had emerged I
had thought with a narrow intensity only of our immediate
security. I had not realised what had been happening to the
world, had not anticipated this startling vision of unfamiliar
things. I had expected to see