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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The War of the Worlds, with eBook
English language
Published July 9, 2009 by Tantor Audio.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-200-11941-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 72791629
The War Of The Worlds
172 pages
English language
Published Sept. 16, 2015
The War of the Worlds
110 pages
English language
Published Oct. 15, 2010 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
The War of the Worlds
143 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1988
The War Of The Worlds
163 pages
English language
Published Dec. 3, 2015
La guerra de los mundos
161 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2013
The War of the Worlds
192 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1962 by Penguin Books.
The War of the Worlds
143 pages
English language
Published Oct. 1, 2004 by Project Gutenberg.
The War of the Worlds
389 pages
English language
Published Aug. 19, 2016
The War of the Worlds
189 pages
English language
Published May 1, 1962 by Popular Library.
The War of the Worlds
208 pages
English language
Published Oct. 19, 2011 by Bantam Press.
The War of the Worlds
192 pages
English language
Published Aug. 11, 2017
The War of the Worlds
188 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1964
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 2017 by LibriVox.
The War of the Worlds
80 pages
English language
Published Aug. 19, 2011
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