The voices of The War of the Worlds

4 voices in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Every one is a separate voice, cast to the character as written.

• Narrator (narrator) — The unnamed Surrey journalist who witnesses the Martian invasion. His narration is retrospective, measured, scientific — a man reconstructing the worst days of human history.
• The Artilleryman (supporting) — A British army artilleryman the narrator meets twice. Pragmatic, irreverent, a survivor with a grandiose plan for underground resistance that he lacks the discipline to execute.
• The Curate (supporting) — A frightened, unravelling clergyman the narrator shelters with briefly. His faith and reason disintegrate under the weight of the catastrophe, becoming a dangerous liability.
• The Narrator's Brother (supporting) — The narrator's brother in London, whose parallel experience of the invasion is related in Book Two. Practical and protective.

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