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 Illustrated
232 pages
Published April 18, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7404-3519-0Copied ISBN!
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- 60352351
The War of the Worlds Illustrated
232 pages
Published Dec. 25, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5864-2637-6Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds Illustrated
232 pages
Published April 15, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7387-6191-1Copied ISBN!
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- 60352185
The War of the Worlds illustrated
216 pages
Published Jan. 28, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6056-6201-3Copied ISBN!
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- 51405606
The War of the Worlds
192 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1966 by Penguin Books.
The War of the Worlds
249 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 2015
The War of the Worlds
242 pages
English language
Published July 29, 2017
The War of the Worlds : By H. G. Wells - Illustrated
236 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2016
The War of the Worlds
169 pages
English language
Published April 20, 2016
War of the Worlds
190 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5893-9691-1Copied ISBN!
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- 56541945
The War of the Worlds Illustrated
218 pages
Published May 8, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5007-8792-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 58001385
The War of the Worlds "Annotated"
186 pages
Published Sept. 9, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6843-6621-5Copied ISBN!
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- 55797772
War of the Worlds
243 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 2013
The War of the Worlds
208 pages
English language
Published June 12, 2012 by Atria Books.
La Guerre des mondes
183 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2016
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