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The War of the Worlds / Echoes of Despair

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: fear, trauma, destruction, loss, survival  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-26

I have an impression that many of the houses here were still occupied by scared inhabitants, too frightened even for flight. Here too the evidence of ...
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The War of the Worlds / Natures Wrath

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: alienation, ecological destruction, fear, industrialization, mystery  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-12

All about me the red weed clambered among the ruins, writhing to get above me in the dimness. Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon m...
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The War of the Worlds / Railway Ruin

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: destruction, industrialization, light and dark, human fragility, disaster  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-08

There was a light down below the hill, on the railway, near the arch, and several of the houses along the Maybury road and the streets near the statio...
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The War of the Worlds / Indiscriminate Warfare

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: destruction, technology, nature, desolation, modernity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-08

Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal. And shining with the growing light of the east, three ...
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The War of the Worlds / Desolation Aftermath

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: war, loss, destruction, isolation, nature  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-14

In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upon it that was not alr...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Temporal Clash

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: evolution, nature, identity, destruction, discovery  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-10

Am I, then, an inhabitant of the earth of the present day, destined to find myself face to face with a representative of this antediluvian family? I c...
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The War of the Worlds / Hope Amid Destruction

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: hope, despair, divine judgment, destruction, existential struggle  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17

Plentiful hope—for all this destruction!” I began to explain my view of our position. He listened at first, but as I went on the interest dawning in h...