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 Annotated
175 pages
English language
Published July 31, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds
181 pages
English language
Published Sept. 20, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-4809-9193-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds Annotated
217 pages
English language
Published Dec. 26, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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The War of the Worlds : Illustrated Edition
185 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-3555-0180-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds( annotated edition)
213 pages
English language
Published May 20, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-8307-4412-6Copied ISBN!
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- 72628396
the war of the worlds by h.g. wells A classic illustrated Edition
182 pages
English language
Published Aug. 17, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-4585-6892-0Copied ISBN!
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- 65728456
The War of the Worlds
173 pages
English language
Published May 22, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-8312-2228-9Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds Annotated
217 pages
English language
Published Oct. 28, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7556-7631-1Copied ISBN!
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- 72628360
The War of the Worlds
84 pages
English language
Published Jan. 23, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-4066-7113-9Copied ISBN!
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- 65728201
The War of the Worlds
181 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-6665-2982-9Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds illustrated edition
222 pages
English language
Published Sept. 14, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-3527-9464-7Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Annotated): War stories, Martians Fiction, Science fiction, Mars (Planet) Fiction, Space warfare Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Life on other planets
104 pages
English language
Published July 21, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-8419-0900-2Copied ISBN!
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- 72916421
A Guerra dos Mundos
200 pages
Portuguese language
Published Jan. 1, 2020
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- 978-65-5579-023-8Copied ISBN!
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- 55277469
The War of the Worlds
English language
Published June 1, 1994
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- 978-1-56103-514-4Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds Illustrated
248 pages
English language
Published Nov. 28, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7752-7216-6Copied ISBN!
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- 70332806
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