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
217 pages
English language
Published Oct. 16, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-3585-2283-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
165 pages
English language
Published July 1, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5300-5568-3Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
164 pages
English language
Published May 25, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5087-6031-1Copied ISBN!
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The War of the Worlds
142 pages
English language
Published May 26, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-5093-5663-6Copied ISBN!
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- 65728301
War of the Worlds
146 pages
Published Oct. 23, 2013 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-4935-3029-8Copied ISBN!
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- 22800700
The War of the Worlds, the Original Novel
162 pages
Published Nov. 5, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5191-4385-3Copied ISBN!
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- 28918289
The War of the Worlds
164 pages
Published Nov. 21, 2020
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- 978-1-77426-063-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 55996424
The War of the Worlds
150 pages
Published Oct. 1, 2015
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- 978-1-77226-162-2Copied ISBN!
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- 26781184
The War of the Worlds
178 pages
Published Jan. 13, 2020 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 978-1-6601-1313-2Copied ISBN!
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- 54223986
The War of the Worlds
118 pages
Published June 24, 2015 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
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- 978-1-5146-6096-6Copied ISBN!
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- 27718766
The War of the Worlds
219 pages
English language
Published May 26, 2021 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-7481-6744-4Copied ISBN!
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- 72916459
The War of the Worlds Illustrated
230 pages
English language
Published July 2, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-8392-7540-9Copied ISBN!
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- 71309291
A guerra dos mundos
244 pages
Galician language
Published Jan. 1, 2005 by La Voz de Galicia.
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- 978-84-9757-199-9Copied ISBN!
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- 8689346
สงครามล้างพิภพ
304 pages
Thai language
Published June 1, 2005
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- 978-974-92962-8-8Copied ISBN!
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- 17834623
The War of the Worlds Annotated
181 pages
English language
Published June 1, 2022 by Independently Published book edition.
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- 979-8-8332-4302-2Copied ISBN!
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- 72628584
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