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 June 6, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds Annotated
218 pages
Published Dec. 13, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5807-5431-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds Annotated
218 pages
Published Dec. 7, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5777-0555-8Copied ISBN!
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- 56717745
The War of the Worlds Annotated
218 pages
Published Dec. 21, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 56833875
The War of the Worlds Illustrated
220 pages
Published May 17, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6465-0536-2Copied ISBN!
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- 53434353
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
194 pages
Published July 11, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6653-7241-9Copied ISBN!
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- 54490440
The War of the Worlds: Annotated
218 pages
Published May 15, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5046-5353-2Copied ISBN!
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- 58075102
The War of the Worlds Illustrated
232 pages
Published Nov. 6, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5600-8926-9Copied ISBN!
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- 55863902
The War of the Worlds Illustrated
232 pages
Published Sept. 19, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6877-8419-1Copied ISBN!
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- 55417502
A Guerra Dos Mundos / the War of the Worlds
Published June 30, 2007
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- 978-84-8302-214-6Copied ISBN!
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- 42188967
The War of the Worlds The Annotated Version
222 pages
Published April 10, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6359-0143-4Copied ISBN!
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- 53150504
The War of the Worlds
Published April 6, 2018
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- 978-1-9875-8707-4Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 61463156
La Guerra de los Mundos
Published July 29, 2017
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- 978-1-5071-8433-2Copied ISBN!
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- 57312418
The War of the Worlds
122 pages
Published March 7, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7182-0497-1Copied ISBN!
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- 57351464
La Guerre des mondes illustree
234 pages
Published April 4, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7328-1246-6Copied ISBN!
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- 57780487
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