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
219 pages
English language
Published Feb. 5, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-7050-1543-6Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 70332796
The War of the Worlds Annotated
181 pages
English language
Published March 11, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-4307-3306-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 72628309
La guerra de los mundos
204 pages
Spanish language
Published March 1, 1984
- ISBN:
- 978-84-322-2210-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 29324211
La Guerre des Mondes
98 pages
French language
Published Dec. 22, 2021
- ISBN:
- 978-2-36955-027-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 73422728
La guerre des mondes
224 pages
French language
Published June 8, 1973 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-050017-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 6696971
The War of the Worlds: original
132 pages
English language
Published May 31, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-8331-0679-2Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 69741400
The War of the Worlds
119 pages
English language
Published June 2, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6505-3617-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 65728687
The War of the Worlds
230 pages
English language
Published Nov. 30, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5744-4440-5Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 72649530
La guerre des mondes
192 pages
French language
Published May 3, 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-2-37735-037-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 73422725
La guerre des mondes
359 pages
French language
Published March 24, 1998 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-040334-9Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 787237
La guerra de los mundos
139 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 26, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-7026-7404-1Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 64712672
La guerra de los mundos
204 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 26, 2016
- ISBN:
- 978-84-945709-8-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 33000702
War of the Worlds
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2001
- ISBN:
- 978-1-57019-442-9Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 5410406
Wojna światów
216 pages
Polish language
Published May 16, 2018
- ISBN:
- 978-83-7731-286-5Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 40035903
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