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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132 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2020
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The War of the Worlds
132 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2020
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War of the Worlds
173 pages
English language
Published Jan. 15, 1981 by Berkley Publishing Group.
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The War of the Worlds
172 pages
English language
Published July 18, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds:
118 pages
English language
Published Sept. 15, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
110 pages
English language
Published May 24, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
172 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2011
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- 73653721
The War of the Worlds
132 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2020
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The War of the Worlds
224 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2019
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- 978-0-7515-7476-0Copied ISBN!
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- 42779728
The War of the Worlds
308 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2006 by Turtleback Books.
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- 978-1-4177-9300-6Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
140 pages
English language
Published Feb. 1, 2006
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- 978-1-905459-10-0Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds: Illustrated
180 pages
English language
Published May 23, 2016 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5333-1454-3Copied ISBN!
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- 30821041
The War of the Worlds
182 pages
English language
Published July 2, 2021
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- 978-1-954525-49-8Copied ISBN!
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- 59547018
The War of the Worlds
228 pages
English language
Published Oct. 16, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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The War of the Worlds
256 pages
English language
Published April 28, 2008
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- 978-1-4344-6609-9Copied ISBN!
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