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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The War of the Worlds
224 pages
Published Nov. 8, 2018
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The War of the Worlds
130 pages
Published Dec. 2, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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War of the Worlds: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition
272 pages
Published Aug. 20, 2020 by Collins.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published March 24, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
476 pages
Published Feb. 6, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
241 pages
Published May 4, 2012 by Dover Publications.
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The War of the Worlds
224 pages
Published Sept. 30, 2018
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The War of the Worlds
152 pages
Published Dec. 9, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-6733-7281-6Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
160 pages
Published Oct. 9, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-7277-3164-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
216 pages
Published Oct. 1, 2015
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- 978-81-7599-282-5Copied ISBN!
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War of the Worlds
130 pages
Published Sept. 14, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
112 pages
Published Dec. 12, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
222 pages
Published April 29, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0962-6604-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of The Worlds
124 pages
Published Aug. 27, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
180 pages
Published Feb. 5, 2017
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