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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540 pages
Published June 28, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
114 pages
Published Nov. 12, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
260 pages
Published July 28, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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La Guerre des mondes
192 pages
Published May 31, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
228 pages
Published Jan. 15, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
80 pages
Published Sept. 23, 2017
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The War Of The Wise Worlds
242 pages
Published June 1, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
174 pages
Published Aug. 27, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5372-8931-1Copied ISBN!
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La Guerre des Mondes
192 pages
Published Aug. 12, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
114 pages
Published Aug. 19, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-7259-0157-5Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
148 pages
Published Dec. 25, 2013 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4947-9376-0Copied ISBN!
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War of the Worlds
176 pages
Published Aug. 12, 2011 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4662-2479-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
242 pages
Published Sept. 6, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5172-2499-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
160 pages
Published Nov. 15, 2020
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The War of the Worlds
102 pages
Published April 1, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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