The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

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Publisher Description

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1898. It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.


The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The narrator, a philosophically-inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to southern England. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events in the capital and escapes the Martians by boarding a ship near Tillingham, on the Essex coast.

  • GENRE
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy
    RELEASED
    1992
    24 July
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    257
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    The Project Gutenberg
    SIZE
    467.3
    KB

    Customer Reviews

    Don't take this seriously ,

    Great book - but outstays its welcome

    WotW is a must-read for any fan of Victorian fiction, although it must be stated that Wells’ imagery is never as attention-grabbing as Dickens’, and the many attempts at horror all fall short of the experience gained from reading ‘Dracula’… WotW beats both those books even if it is in one category only: having a truly fascinating storyline which is made even more so when you appreciate that this book, which predicts many of the inventions of the 20th Century, was written over 120 years ago

    One critique must be stated, however: this book may be a page-turner for the first 12 chapters, I found that the second book outstayed its welcome, leading to a third act which is, to quote a certain video game review, “bloated”.

    fin mogs 2010 ,

    War of the Worlds

    To me personally I think the book was pretty good and I think I would recommend the book to someone else.

    Finlay Morgan

    Lit Alp ,

    Dystopia global classic predicts planes/space travel

    Simple accessible style skilled writing apocalyptic imagery , below sc di plot there are deep
    historical parallels and precedents plus prescient re flying machines and space travel, underrated masterpiece.
    Both predictions

    philosophical thoughts on the place if religion and science in our modern society . Many historians

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