The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, native locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flagβonly to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray. Very soon humankind finds itself on t
The War of the Worlds
β Scribed by Wells, H. G.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 315 KB
- Series
- Penguin Classics
- Category
- Fiction
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