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
224 pages
Published April 16, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
184 pages
Published June 5, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds Illustrated
232 pages
Published Nov. 1, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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La Guerre Des Mondes
192 pages
Published Aug. 17, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5371-2483-4Copied ISBN!
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La Guerre des mondes
192 pages
Published Aug. 8, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5369-6002-0Copied ISBN!
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- 31542002
The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Aug. 2, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
98 pages
Published June 30, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0772-6102-0Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Dec. 11, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5410-5085-3Copied ISBN!
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La guerre des mondes
219 pages
French language
Published 2023 by Éditions Samarkand.
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- 978-2-38304-096-5Copied ISBN!
The War of the Worlds
230 pages
Published May 31, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0710-2220-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
294 pages
Published July 20, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9737-4833-5Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds: in large print
186 pages
Published Sept. 7, 2022
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- 978-3-368-23976-3Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
126 pages
Published Sept. 21, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9775-3114-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds: unabridged - first published in 1898: Volume 1
212 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
112 pages
Published Dec. 11, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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