The War Of The Worlds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537555843)

Mars is a planet older than Earth and has entered the cooling-off stage. The drop in temperature and sea level drives its inhabitants to devise a method of getting off the planet. They fire themselves off in canisters towards Earth. The astronomer Ogilvy sees this and becomes excited, and gradually the rest of Britain takes an interest in Mars. Articles are run in the papers and people begin watching the flame, which appears when the canisters are shot into space around midnight for ten nights altogether. However, no one has any idea what is about to happen and life continues on. The narrator for example, learns to ride a bicycle. It lands and Ogilvy sets off to find the fallen meteorite (which is what he believes it to be). When he thinks there is a man inside it, he hurries off to tell someone, finally convincing the journalist Henderson.

Author: Herbert George Wells
ISBN-10: 1537555847
ISBN-13: 9781537555843
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2016
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.26d