The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G.

The War of the Worlds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780451530653)

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The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G.

The War of the Worlds

$5.95
The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G.

The War of the Worlds

$5.95
Format: Paperback
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For more than one hundred years H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own....

So begins The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic that first proposed the possibility of intelligent life on other planets and has enthralled readers for generations. This compelling tale describes the Martian invasion of earth. When huge, tireless creatures land in England, complete chaos erupts. Using their fiery heat rays and crushing strength, the aliens just may succeed in silencing all opposition. Is life on earth doomed? Will mankind survive? A timeless view of a universe turned upside down, The War of the Worlds is an ingenious and imaginative look into the possibilities of the future and the secrets yet to be revealed.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KARL KROEBER AND AN AFTERWORD BY ISAAC ASIMOV

Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN-10: 0451530659
ISBN-13: 9780451530653
Publisher: Signet Book
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2007
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.1
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 550 / War of the Worlds (Unabridged)
By H. G. Wells
By H. G. Wells
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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.

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