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
139 pages
English language
Published March 21, 2019 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-0911-6361-4Copied ISBN!
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- 65728661
The War of the Worlds
197 pages
English language
Published Aug. 3, 2017
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- 978-88-228-0706-9Copied ISBN!
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- 73653639
The War of the Worlds
154 pages
English language
Published Dec. 26, 2012 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4818-4467-3Copied ISBN!
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- 65728219
The War of the Worlds
132 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2020
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- 978-1-80060-493-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 65728550
The War of the Worlds
180 pages
English language
Published May 23, 2008
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- 978-1-60450-244-2Copied ISBN!
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- 7486453
The War of the Worlds
138 pages
English language
Published April 19, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9876-9286-0Copied ISBN!
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- 65728589
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published March 31, 2005 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-144103-0Copied ISBN!
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- 536353
The War of the Worlds
164 pages
English language
Published July 28, 2008
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- 978-81-320-2331-9Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 8243244
The War of the Worlds
11 pages
English language
Published Jan. 10, 1997 by Dover Publications.
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- 978-0-486-29506-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 753004
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, Classics
240 pages
English language
Published March 1, 2004
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- 978-0-8095-9313-2Copied ISBN!
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- 1231001
The War of the Worlds
96 pages
English language
Published Sept. 23, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9775-8451-9Copied ISBN!
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- 65728421
The War of the Worlds
198 pages
English language
Published Dec. 11, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9815-7927-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 65728446
The War of the Worlds
176 pages
English language
Published April 29, 2016
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- 978-605-04-2744-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 73653614
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
101 pages
English language
Published Sept. 28, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-5498-5183-4Copied ISBN!
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- 65728583
The War Of The Worlds.
192 pages
English language
Published 2000
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- 978-3-464-05029-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 1091513
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