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Title: The War of the Wenuses

Author: C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas

Release Date: January 13, 2005 [eBook #14678]

Language: English

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THE WAR OF THE WENUSES

by

C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS

Reprint of the 1898 ed. published by J. W. Arrowsmith
Bristol, Eng.







[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE INVISIBLE AUTHOR.
(From a Negative by THE SPECTROSCOPIC Co.)]




THE WAR OF THE WENUSES

Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli

Author of _The Treadmill_, _The Isthmus of Dr. Day_, _The Vanishing
Lady_, etc., etc.

by

C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS




"Not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science, books"
_The Artilleryman_



[Illustration: Arrowsmith colophon]



TO

H. G. WELLS

THIS OUTRAGE
ON A FASCINATING AND CONVINCING
ROMANCE




CONTENTS


BOOK I.--The Coming of the Wenuses.

Chapter

I. "JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER"

II. THE FALLING STAR

III. THE CRINOLINE EXPANDS

IV. HOW I REACHED HOME



BOOK II.--London Under the Wenuses.

I. THE DEATH OF THE EXAMINER

II. THE MAN AT UXBRIDGE ROAD

III. THE TEA-TRAY IN WESTBOURNE GROVE

IV. WRECKAGE

V. BUBBLES


APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B




BOOK I.

The Coming of the Wenuses.




The Coming of the Wenuses.

* * * * *




I.

"JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER."


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