The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The Martians intend to eliminate humankind and conquer Earth because their own …
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The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The Martians intend to eliminate humankind and conquer Earth because their own older and smaller world has reached the "last stage of exhaustion". It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann. The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother who escapes to Tillingham in Essex as London and Southern England are invaded by Martians. It is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. Its 1938 radio broadcast directed and narrated by Orson Welles caused a sensation, convincing part of the general public that a Martian invasion was ongoing.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 11494
- BNF ID:
- 11961283d
- VIAF:
- 175789810
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The War of the Worlds
216 pages
Published Oct. 3, 2019
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The War of the Worlds
88 pages
Published Nov. 3, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
116 pages
Published Aug. 20, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
94 pages
Published Aug. 16, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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La guerra de los mundos
224 pages
Published Dec. 27, 2016 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-84-9105-237-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
182 pages
Published April 6, 2019
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- 978-0-368-55682-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
212 pages
Published Jan. 30, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
132 pages
Published April 6, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of Worlds
196 pages
Published March 24, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
142 pages
Published Oct. 22, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-7295-4615-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds: By H. G. Wells - Illustrated
178 pages
Published Dec. 9, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5408-2022-8Copied ISBN!
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La Guerra de Los Mundos
174 pages
Published June 6, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5471-9665-4Copied ISBN!
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War of the Worlds
154 pages
Published Dec. 24, 2016
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- 978-1-912032-97-6Copied ISBN!
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146 pages
Published Feb. 20, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
248 pages
Published Aug. 13, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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