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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La guerra de los mundos
224 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 1994
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- 978-84-207-3410-1Copied ISBN!
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- 16082053
La guerra dei mondi
190 pages
Italian language
Published Jan. 1, 1991
- ISBN:
- 978-88-425-0939-4Copied ISBN!
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- 11193068
La Guerra de Los Mundos
240 pages
Spanish language
Published April 14, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5327-4999-5Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 30021643
Ο πόλεμος των κόσμων
434 pages
Greek language
Published July 1, 2005 by Psichogios Publications.
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- 978-960-274-935-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 28408477
WAR OF THE WORLDS: UNABRIDGED ORIGINAL CLASSIC
222 pages
English language
Published Sept. 24, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-3545-4142-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 69368631
Война миров
288 pages
Russian language
Published Jan. 9, 2020 by AST.
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- 978-5-17-080103-9Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 25167013
La guerre des mondes
228 pages
French language
Published Aug. 3, 2020
- ISBN:
- 978-84-122018-5-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 64686407
Война миров
443 pages
Russian language
Published Jan. 1, 2005 by AST.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-17-028628-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 3163019
The War of the Worlds
209 pages
English language
Published Sept. 20, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-4807-6352-2Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 65728715
War of the Worlds
English language
Published Feb. 1, 2021
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- 978-1-6636-0454-5Copied ISBN!
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- 65728341
Krieg der Welten
338 pages
German language
Published May 25, 2005
- ISBN:
- 978-3-257-23537-1Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 2003396
The War of the Worlds annotated
213 pages
English language
Published Oct. 14, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-4961-1076-1Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 72628715
The War of the Worlds
English language
Published Feb. 12, 2008 by Blackstone Audio.
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- 978-0-7861-8238-1Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 2417174
La guerra de los mundos (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)
200 pages
Spanish language
Published June 5, 2019
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- 978-84-9074-866-4Copied ISBN!
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- 64712676
La Guerre des Mondes
231 pages
French language
Published 2024 by Éditions Rhéartis.
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- 978-2-7146-0017-2Copied ISBN!
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