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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La Guerra De Los Mundos
240 pages
Published Jan. 11, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
340 pages
Published July 12, 2017
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The War of the Worlds
82 pages
Published Dec. 14, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published June 2, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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War of the Worlds
204 pages
Published Dec. 1, 1993 by Perfection Learning.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published June 15, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
184 pages
Published Nov. 12, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Words
172 pages
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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- 978-1-910146-43-9Copied ISBN!
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- 49809853
The War of the Worlds: Special Edition
174 pages
Published April 7, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9874-8632-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
291 pages
Published Sept. 1, 2000
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- 978-1-56852-547-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
370 pages
Published May 21, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published May 23, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
130 pages
Published Dec. 25, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
214 pages
Published April 9, 2019
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Der Krieg der Welten
216 pages
Published Aug. 27, 2019 by Books on Demand.
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