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The War of the Worlds / Nature and Decay

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: growth decay, urbanization, environmental fragility, contrast, nostalgia  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

The red creeper swarmed up the trees about the old palace, and their branches stretched gaunt and dead, and set with shrivelled leaves, from amid its ...
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The War of the Worlds / Destruction and Indifference

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: power dynamics, isolation, existential dread, indifference, human fragility  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

Two days after I was imprisoned it had been destroyed, with every soul in it, by a Martian. He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without an...
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The War of the Worlds / Concealment and Urgency

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, secrecy, vulnerability, societal norms, fragility  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-22

My brother pushed the pony and chaise back into the hedge, and the man drove by and stopped at the turn of the way. It was a carriage, with a pole for...