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The War of the Worlds (Clothbound Classic) by H.G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Collins Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive. When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the English countryside, the inhabitants of Ea ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Knickerbocker Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this thrilling science fiction classic. A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late-ninteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Macmillan Collector's LIbrary) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Sterling Children's Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Union Square Kids Unabridged Classics Ser.
What would happen if Martians landed on Earth--and none of our weapons could stop them? H.G. Wells's timeless masterpiece--which spawned many a movie adaptation--imagines this frightening scenario. The horrifying bug-like extraterrestrials, which can wipe out entire crowds with a single heat-ray and poi ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: MIT Press / Radium Age Ser.
In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war "to end all wars" that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I's mass slaughter and long before World War II's mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that ...Show more
The World Set Free by H., G. Wells
Category: Classic
This chilling, futuristic novel, written in 1913 and first published the following year, was incredibly prophetic on a major scale. Wells was a genius and visionary, as demonstrated by many of his other works, but this book is clearly one of his best. He predicts nuclear warfare years before research be ...Show more
Time Machine by H. G. Wells; Alessandro Lecis (Illustrator); Alessandra Panzeri (Illustrator)
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Classics Reimagined Ser.
Retold with stunning modern illustration, The Time Machine is a masterpiece of invention and storytelling from the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells. In this unabridged classic, the time-traveling protagonist is propelled by his machine to the distant year of 802,701 AD. To his horror, he finds onl ...Show more