The War of the Worlds - Softcover

Wells, H.G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9357943625 ISBN 13: 9789357943628

Publisher: V&S Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

The War of the Worlds is a novel that describes the Martian invasion on London in the nineteenth century. The story begins one evening after a cylinder is found on Horsell Common in London. The people approach the object and are instantly killed by a heat-ray. A frightening invader emerges from the cylinder. When the powerful Martians build extremely large killing machines that destroy everything with gas burning rays, mankind is on the brink of extinction. They gorge on the blood of humans kept alive inside their machines. The War of the Worlds is described by a protagonist from Surrey who lives through the invasion of southern England. The container which drops from the sky suddenly and lands near the narrator's home has an alien with grey skin and large eyes and tentacles. As more containers drop, a human delegation forms and approaches the Martians with white flags of peace, but the Martians kill them immediately. As the British military arrives, the humans of southern England engage into a war and stop the Martians from assembling their unknown machinery. The military cannot face the Martians and their technology.

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About the Author

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 at Bromley, Kent in England and died on August 13, 1946, London. He was an English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for his science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and comic novels such as The History of Mr. Polly. H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of unlimited imagination. He was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called the father of science fiction. His most popular science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds.

Edition details

• Publisher: V&S Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9357943625
• ISBN 13: 9789357943628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168