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
132 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2005
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- 978-1-933652-33-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
126 pages
English language
Published July 27, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0822-3062-2Copied ISBN!
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- 50862357
The War of the Worlds
224 pages
English language
Published Dec. 15, 1993
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- 978-0-460-87303-1Copied ISBN!
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- 485776
The War of the Worlds: Original Edition
124 pages
English language
Published Aug. 27, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-5496-0461-4Copied ISBN!
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- 65728890
The War of the Worlds
344 pages
English language
Published Sept. 19, 2008
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- 978-1-4270-6758-6Copied ISBN!
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- 65728971
The War of the Worlds
230 pages
English language
Published May 24, 2005
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- 978-0-06-079124-7Copied ISBN!
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- 2089870
The War of the Worlds
126 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0733-5809-0Copied ISBN!
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- 50150665
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published April 26, 2012 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-119904-7Copied ISBN!
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- 13614257
The War of the Worlds
195 pages
English language
Published June 21, 2017
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- 978-605-9489-79-9Copied ISBN!
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- 36469927
The War of the Worlds
172 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5413-4415-0Copied ISBN!
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- 65728849
The War of the Worlds
332 pages
English language
Published March 24, 2017
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- 978-3-7447-1138-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 65728526
Rollercoasters
272 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2021
- ISBN:
- 978-1-382-03339-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 65728607
The War of the Worlds
121 pages
English language
Published Sept. 27, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-5498-4357-0Copied ISBN!
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- 65728878
The War of the Worlds
262 pages
English language
Published Nov. 15, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5403-9504-7Copied ISBN!
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- 65728428
The War of the Worlds
208 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5059-9059-1Copied ISBN!
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- 65728276
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