The War of the Worlds (Includes biography about the life and times of H.G. Wells‪)‬

H.G. Wells novel is include here in electronic form with a biography about the life and times of Wells'.


The War of the Worlds first appeared in serial form in 1895 and ran into 1896 and was highly successful.  In 1897 in Britain it was published as a novel.  Before the book came out, pirated forms appeared in American magazines where the locale was changed to the USA.  


The War of the Worlds is considered the first space-invasion story.  Wellsís format was modeled on that of Daniel Dafoeís, A Journal of the Plague Year, which appeared in 1722.  The story is presented as factual, but is in fact, fiction.  An unnamed narrator in London, a philosophical writer, is witness to an invasion of London and the southern counties of England.  The invasion is not from a human enemy but from Martians who have landed a spacecraft on Horsell Common.  The narratorís brother also tells his story has he tries to escape from England while accompanied by two women.