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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
Weaving Modernism by K. L. H. Wells
Category: Art and Design
An unprecedented study that reveals tapestry's role as a modernist medium and a model for the movement's discourse on both sides of the Atlantic in the decades following World War II With a revelatory analysis of how the postwar French tapestry revival provided a medium for modern art and a model for it ...Show more
What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells
Category: Classic Fiction
Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? Wha ...Show more
Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
Category: Fantasy
A traitor and a swordsman join forces to save the world from being rewritten into devastation.Every year the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire. Every hundred years the very fabric of the world must be rewo ...Show more
When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells
Category: Fiction
The Sleeper is just an ordinary man, no one special, just someone going about his everyday business. Until one day he awakes, and finds that the world around him has changed. No longer a nobody, he has been catapulted into the unenviable position of a pawn in a dangerous conspiracy where the stakes are ...Show more