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
256 pages
English language
Published Dec. 1, 2000
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- 978-1-57646-513-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
236 pages
English language
Published June 19, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
221 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1910
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- 978-1-78422-271-0Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds, Samizdat Edition
172 pages
English language
Published Nov. 5, 2011
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The Call of the Wild (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
288 pages
English language
Published Sept. 12, 2004
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- 978-1-55443-556-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published July 18, 2012 by Blackstone Publishing.
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- 978-1-4815-5558-6Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
224 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2036 by Modern Library.
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- 978-1-58836-233-9Copied ISBN!
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- 73653768
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2001
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- 978-1-55685-573-3Copied ISBN!
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- 14913564
The War of the Worlds
172 pages
English language
Published Sept. 4, 2007
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- 978-1-101-37597-6Copied ISBN!
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- 73653697
The War of the Worlds
64 pages
English language
Published Aug. 1, 1994
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- 978-1-56103-512-0Copied ISBN!
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- 11410475
The war of the worlds
98 pages
English language
Published June 14, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5480-9119-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
201 pages
English language
Published Dec. 23, 2021
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- 978-83-8261-112-0Copied ISBN!
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- 73951490
The War of the Worlds
209 pages
English language
Published March 15, 2022
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- 978-93-91384-70-8Copied ISBN!
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- 73653730
War of the Worlds: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition course licence
240 pages
English language
Published June 28, 2021 by Collins.
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- 978-0-00-851213-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
232 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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