Plot overview — The War of the Worlds — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Plot overview
Introduction
What you need to know
The whole novel in brief, part by part, and how the narrator's story and his brother's run side by side in Book One before Book Two follows the narrator alone.
Where each part's key moments fall, from the first cylinder on Horsell Common to the dead Martians on Primrose Hill, across Book One, The Coming of the Martians, and Book Two, The Earth under the Martians.
How the novel opens with 'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century' and ends with the narrator and his wife each counted 'among the dead'.
