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
156 pages
English language
Published March 1, 2009 by Red and Black Publishers.
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- 978-1-934941-62-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
48 pages
English language
Published Dec. 1, 2004 by Evans Brothers.
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- 978-0-237-52405-0Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
106 pages
English language
Published Oct. 1, 2009 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4382-8329-6Copied ISBN!
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- 8243242
The War of the Worlds
174 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9740-5721-4Copied ISBN!
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- 65728596
The War of the Worlds
196 pages
English language
Published Aug. 18, 2008
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- 978-0-554-32804-1Copied ISBN!
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- 65728367
The War of the Worlds
95 pages
English language
Published Aug. 13, 1991 by Turtleback Books.
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- 978-0-8335-8501-1Copied ISBN!
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- 15383768
The War of the Worlds
228 pages
English language
Published Oct. 23, 2001 by HarperCollins.
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- 978-0-688-13137-1Copied ISBN!
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- 1733663
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published Dec. 6, 2018 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-241-38270-7Copied ISBN!
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- 42643855
The War of the Worlds
192 pages
English language
Published Feb. 16, 2015
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- 978-1-297-06640-5Copied ISBN!
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- 38805633
The War of the Worlds
208 pages
English language
Published Feb. 3, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5078-1773-5Copied ISBN!
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- 72727578
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1999
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- 978-0-88646-996-2Copied ISBN!
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- 15116228
The War of the Worlds
172 pages
English language
Published Oct. 3, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9778-8044-4Copied ISBN!
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- 65728454
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
172 pages
English language
Published April 23, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-9809-1345-0Copied ISBN!
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- 65728726
The War of the Worlds
1 pages
English language
Published Dec. 2, 1986 by Signet Press.
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- 978-0-451-52063-0Copied ISBN!
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- 11317131
The War of the Worlds
218 pages
English language
Published June 21, 2016
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- 978-1-318-75255-3Copied ISBN!
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- 65728839
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