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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314 pages
Published June 16, 2018
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H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
100 pages
Published Sept. 1, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
160 pages
Published March 4, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
330 pages
Published Dec. 4, 2015
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The War Of The Worlds
104 pages
Published April 1, 1898 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
142 pages
Published Feb. 28, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
108 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
256 pages
Published Oct. 1, 2016
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- 978-1-63106-245-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
188 pages
Published Sept. 21, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
218 pages
Published Oct. 4, 2012 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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120 pages
Published Feb. 10, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published June 26, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The war of the worlds 1898 [Hardcover]
338 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2015
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262 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds: is a science fiction NOVEL
100 pages
Published April 30, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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