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
112 pages
Published Dec. 13, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
110 pages
Published Feb. 16, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
216 pages
Published March 7, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
124 pages
Published Feb. 17, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9850-7833-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
216 pages
Published July 27, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
150 pages
Published Nov. 11, 2015
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- 978-1-4209-5206-3Copied ISBN!
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- 35822904
The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Nov. 23, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5194-1484-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
242 pages
Published Dec. 31, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-6535-5866-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
572 pages
Published Sept. 22, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-6947-4436-4Copied ISBN!
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- 49774757
The War of the Worlds
204 pages
Published Sept. 14, 2018
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- 978-0-9993194-7-5Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
346 pages
Published May 16, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0985-5133-9Copied ISBN!
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- 45958208
The War Of The Worlds
61 pages
Published Jan. 1, 1999
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- 978-1-56767-424-8Copied ISBN!
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- 65728792
The War of the Worlds
192 pages
Published Sept. 1, 2014
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- 978-1-4549-1528-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
444 pages
Published July 26, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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