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The War of the Worlds

✍ Scribed by H. G. Wells; Darryl Jones

Book ID: 111780916
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Weight: 398 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780191007170

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✦ Synopsis

Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.' One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital, wreaking chaos, death, and destruction. The novel is closely associated with anxiety about a possible invasion of Great Britain at the turn of the century, and concerns about imperial expansion and its impact, and it drew on the latest astronomical knowledge to imagine a desert planet, Mars, turning to Earth for its future. The Martians are also evolutionarily superior to mankind.

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