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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676 pages
Published Dec. 4, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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110 pages
Published March 10, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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132 pages
Published May 6, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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146 pages
Published Aug. 20, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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338 pages
Published Dec. 14, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
100 pages
Published July 8, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
52 pages
Published June 19, 2018
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The War of the Worlds
150 pages
Published July 18, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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172 pages
Published Aug. 26, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
146 pages
Published July 8, 2013 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
152 pages
Published May 4, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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184 pages
Published June 14, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
182 pages
Published April 6, 2019
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The War of the Worlds
352 pages
Published Aug. 24, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
228 pages
Published Oct. 21, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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