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: by H. G. Wells
106 pages
English language
Published July 28, 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-7243-7909-2Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
285 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2005 by Scholastic Corporation.
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- 978-0-439-80099-0Copied ISBN!
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The War Of The Worlds
176 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2004 by Orion Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-7538-2014-8Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
112 pages
English language
Published Oct. 2, 2017 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-5498-8450-4Copied ISBN!
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- 65728197
The War of the Worlds
144 pages
English language
Published June 7, 2012
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- 978-1-61293-307-8Copied ISBN!
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- 30054046
The War of the Worlds
154 pages
English language
Published Nov. 3, 2001
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- 978-0-543-72035-1Copied ISBN!
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- 65728316
The War of the Worlds
104 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2017 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-9762-6826-7Copied ISBN!
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- 65728235
A Critical Edition of the War of the Worlds
319 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1993 by Indiana University Press.
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- 978-0-253-32853-3Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 455079
The War of the Worlds
199 pages
English language
Published Aug. 1, 2009
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- 978-1-60847-937-5Copied ISBN!
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- 13045216
The War of the Worlds
140 pages
English language
Published April 5, 2018
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- 978-3-7326-5025-5Copied ISBN!
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- 65728605
The War of the Worlds
184 pages
English language
Published May 1, 2006
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- 978-1-58049-343-7Copied ISBN!
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- 29970
The War of the Worlds
110 pages
English language
Published March 17, 2018 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-9805-8273-1Copied ISBN!
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- 65728650
The War of the Worlds
284 pages
English language
Published May 15, 2005
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- 978-1-59605-167-6Copied ISBN!
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- 455139
The war of the worlds
174 pages
English language
Published July 31, 2014 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5006-7557-8Copied ISBN!
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- 22974199
The War of the Worlds
177 pages
English language
Published Dec. 28, 2016
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- 978-88-228-8212-7Copied ISBN!
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- 73653618
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