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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- 11494
- BNF ID:
- 11961283d
- VIAF:
- 175789810
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174 pages
Published June 20, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds: [Annotated]
150 pages
Published Aug. 3, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
100 pages
Published Feb. 15, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
118 pages
Published Jan. 7, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War Of The Worlds
192 pages
Published Sept. 3, 2013
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The War of the Worlds
128 pages
Published April 3, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Sept. 14, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
338 pages
Published Sept. 12, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds: By H.G. Wells
148 pages
Published May 5, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Oct. 14, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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War of the Worlds
200 pages
Published March 17, 2019
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
79 pages
Published Sept. 22, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
120 pages
Published Nov. 20, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
90 pages
Published May 26, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
264 pages
Published Nov. 16, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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