Audio Book reading from \"War of the Worlds\".

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Language

English

Voice Age

Teen (13-17)

Accents

North American (General)

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I go to London and see the busy multitudes in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes across my mind that they are. But the ghosts of the past haunting the streets that I have seen silent and retched going to and froze Oh, phantasms in a dead city, the mockery of a life in a galvanized body. And strange too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill as I did. But a day before writing this last chapter to see the great province of houses, demand blew through the haze of smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and froing among the flowerbeds on the hill to see sightseers about the Martian machine that stands there. Still to hear the tall month of playing Children. And to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear, cut hard and silent under the dawn of that last great day. Strangest of all is to hold my wife's hand again and to think that I have counted her and that she has counted me among the dead