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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The War of the Worlds
352 pages
Published Sept. 22, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
190 pages
Published May 25, 2017
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The War of the Worlds
208 pages
Published July 29, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
571 pages
Published May 7, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
220 pages
Published June 9, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
446 pages
Published July 5, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
116 pages
Published July 2, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds: unabridged - first published in 1898
204 pages
Published Jan. 2, 2017 by Books on Demand.
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The War of the Worlds
146 pages
Published Nov. 7, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
446 pages
Published July 19, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
118 pages
Published June 15, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds: in large print
186 pages
Published Sept. 7, 2022
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The War of the Worlds
158 pages
Published Aug. 5, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
90 pages
Published June 1, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
216 pages
Published May 14, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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