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
227 pages
English language
Published Aug. 17, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6761-5623-7Copied ISBN!
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- 65728286
La Guerra de Los Mundos
198 pages
Spanish language
Published Dec. 28, 1994
- ISBN:
- 978-956-13-1137-4Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 11308883
The War of the Worlds
181 pages
English language
Published July 8, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6645-5481-6Copied ISBN!
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- 65728223
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
131 pages
English language
Published Jan. 28, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7015-2002-6Copied ISBN!
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- 68420847
Der Krieg der Welten: Roman. Neu übersetzt von H.-U. Möhring (Fischer Klassik Plus) (German Edition)
292 pages
German language
Published Jan. 26, 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-3-10-403670-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 74264155
The War of the Worlds
English language
Published Jan. 31, 2019 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-190110-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 60441076
La guerra de los mundos
202 pages
Spanish language
Published Feb. 1, 2010
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9908-363-6Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 11308882
A Guerra dos Mundos
178 pages
Portuguese language
- ISBN:
- 978-85-9520-205-4Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 55292935
La guerra de los mundos
200 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 2005
- ISBN:
- 978-968-5679-38-1Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 95582
La Guerre Des Mondes
192 pages
French language
Published Oct. 12, 2016
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5394-7799-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 32685768
La guerre des mondes
264 pages
French language
Published July 23, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9737-4414-6Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 64686401
Insegnami ad amare
178 pages
Italian language
Published Sept. 10, 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-88-228-9989-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 73653625
Ο πόλεμος των κόσμων
284 pages
Greek language
Published Jan. 1, 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-960-422-378-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 27865491
La guerra dei mondi
186 pages
Italian language
Published Jan. 1, 2016 by Castelvecchi.
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- 978-88-6944-690-0Copied ISBN!
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- 34233867
La guerra de los mundos
96 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 1, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-84-95349-46-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 43909850
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