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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156 pages
Published Sept. 13, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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254 pages
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216 pages
Published May 7, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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326 pages
Published June 19, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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116 pages
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The War of the Worlds
154 pages
Published June 4, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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224 pages
Published Nov. 20, 2018
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The War of the Worlds
88 pages
Published March 3, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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210 pages
Published Feb. 12, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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152 pages
Published Oct. 1, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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352 pages
Published Sept. 6, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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192 pages
Published March 15, 2019
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278 pages
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202 pages
Published Jan. 14, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
224 pages
Published Sept. 30, 2018
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