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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La Guerra de Los Mundos
92 pages
Published Aug. 18, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
176 pages
Published July 10, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
446 pages
Published June 27, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
170 pages
Published April 27, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
192 pages
Published Feb. 16, 2015
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The War of the Worlds
178 pages
Published July 12, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds (Annotated): (incl. biography and bibliography)
108 pages
Published March 6, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds Illustrated
230 pages
Published July 26, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
56 pages
Published July 3, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
140 pages
Published Jan. 31, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5390-2603-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
189 pages
Published by Popular Library.
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- 978-99948-1-065-9Copied ISBN!
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- 42104156
The War of the Worlds
156 pages
Published April 1, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5450-4942-6Copied ISBN!
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The War of The Worlds
112 pages
Published Sept. 16, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
446 pages
Published July 30, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
158 pages
Published Aug. 12, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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