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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A Guerra dos Mundos
138 pages
Published April 18, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
154 pages
Published May 31, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
72 pages
Published Nov. 27, 2017
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The War of the Worlds
338 pages
Published June 18, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds:
156 pages
Published March 24, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4974-3811-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
240 pages
Published Aug. 12, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-7244-2891-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
184 pages
Published Aug. 15, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
112 pages
Published Feb. 11, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4959-1998-5Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds illustrated
230 pages
Published June 8, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds: War of the Worlds
167 pages
Published July 21, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
444 pages
Published Oct. 18, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5395-8461-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
240 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2006
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- 978-1-4240-0559-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Jan. 17, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9839-4257-0Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
340 pages
Published Jan. 27, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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La Guerra de Los Mundos / The War of the Worlds
288 pages
Published June 9, 2017
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