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Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells
Category: Classic
George Ponderevo, a student of science, is enlisted to help with the promotion of Tono-Bungay. Tono-Bungay is a harmful stimulant disguised as a miraculous cure-all, the creation of his ambitious uncle Edward. As the tonic prospers, George experiences a swift rise in social status, elevating him to rich ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
'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...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killi ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Gothic Fiction
Cylinders land on earth and the invaders, from Mars, with their huge, round bodies and tentacles, start to vaporize the people of Earth. Houses, towns and cities are soon destroyed in a spiral of violence, creating civil panic and mass evacuations before a foul black smoke is released by the aggressive ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Science
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War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
H.G. Well's 1898 science fiction classic, "The War of the Worlds," tapped into society's fears about worldwide security and an impending war in Europe. However, it wasn't until forty years later that "The War of the Worlds" became infamous. On October 30, 1938, the United States was certain that it was ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people ofthe Earth must come to terms with the prospect of th ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
War of the Worlds (HB) by H. G. WELLS
Category: Children's | Series: Award Essential Classics
With infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs... That is, until the night a shooting star is seen in the sky, and a fleet of ruthless, tentacled Martian fighting-machines land on Earth and begins a deadly rampage. In the face of heat-rays and poisonous gas, pa ...Show more
War of the Worlds & Other Tales by H. G. WELLS
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Flame Tree Collectors' Editions Ser.
Cylinders land on earth and the invaders, from Mars, with their huge, round bodies and tentacles, start to vaporize the people of Earth. Houses, towns and cities are soon destroyed in a spiral of violence, creating civil panic and mass evacuations before a foul black smoke is released by the aggressive ...Show more