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The War of the Worlds / War Fever

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: conflict, alien invasion, human psyche, imperialism, fear and excitement  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

For my own part, I had been feverishly excited all day. Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got...