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
446 pages
Published March 30, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
176 pages
Published Oct. 16, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
152 pages
Published April 23, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
198 pages
Published Sept. 28, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
340 pages
Published Oct. 28, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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La Guerra de Los Mundos
192 pages
Published Sept. 26, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5174-7931-2Copied ISBN!
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- 27127126
The War of the Worlds
306 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2017
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- 978-1-4448-3123-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published July 4, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-7222-4307-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
130 pages
Published Jan. 31, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published July 6, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5148-3988-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
152 pages
Published July 14, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
410 pages
Published Dec. 14, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
84 pages
Published Dec. 7, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
156 pages
Published Sept. 12, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published July 6, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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