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The War of the Worlds

✍ Scribed by Wells, H. G.; Parrinder, Patrick; Aldiss, Brian W.; Sawyer, Andy

Book ID: 110248616
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 370 KB
Edition: Kindle Edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780141441030
ASIN: B07P45N695

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✦ Synopsis

’For countless centuries Mars has been the star of war’

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common near London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilization is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.

The first modern tale of alien invasion,The War of the Worldsremains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works. Part of a brand-new Penguin series of H.G. Wells’s works, this edition includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a further reading list and detailed notes. The introduction, by Brian Aldiss, considers the novel’s view of religion and society.

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