The war of the worlds

After Martians land on Earth just outside of London in the late nineteenth century, an Englishman tries to find his wife while the British military and human technology fail in their efforts to stop the Martians, which have begun to kill and feed off of humans.

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Main Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Signet Classics, [2007]
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Summary:After Martians land on Earth just outside of London in the late nineteenth century, an Englishman tries to find his wife while the British military and human technology fail in their efforts to stop the Martians, which have begun to kill and feed off of humans.
Physical Description:xvi, 208 pages ; 18 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208).
ISBN:9780451530653
9780329835514
0451530659
0329835513
Author Notes:Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) left school at thirteen to become a draper's apprentice (a life he detested); he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous T. H. Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. His immediately successful novel The Time Machine rescued him from poverty. His other ''scientific romances''- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and The First Men in the Moon (1901)-have made him the father of science fiction.