The Battle of Dorking and Other Invasion Stories, 1871-1914

THE BATTLE OF DORKING AND OTHER INVASION STORIES features ten invasion novels and short stories, popular in the years prior to the first World War. Generally set in England during the late Victorian or Edwardian period, invasion literature developed from the public's growing fears of foreign invasion of the British Isles by various enemies, including imperial Germany, France, the Russian Empire, or in the case of WAR OF THE WORLDS, aliens from Mars.

• THE BATTLE OF DORKING, George Chesney
• THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION, George Griffith
• THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND IN 1897, William Le Queux
• THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, H. G. Wells
• THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, Erskine Childers
• THE INVASION OF 1910, William Le Queux
• THE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS, C. H. Kirmess
• SPIES OF THE KAISER, William Le Queux
• THE SWOOP!, P. G. Wodehouse
• WHEN WILLIAM CAME, Saki