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The War of the Worlds
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Product Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Product Details
- Published on: 2009-10-04
- Released on: 2006-03-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "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..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler
From Library Journal
This edition of Wells's much disguised attack on British imperialism includes a scholarly introduction, a biographical preface and chronology of the author's life, maps of the Martian landing sites, and explanatory notes. A lot of extras for the price.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Quick, Dorothy!Auntie Em screamed. Run for the cellar!
But it was too late. The cyclone was bearing down on the Kansas farmhouse where Dorothy was searching for her little dog Toto. The whirling windstorm scooped up the house and carried it high into the sky with Dorothy and Toto in it. When it finally lands, Dorothy and Toto begin one of the most beloved adventures in American literature: their journey to see the wonderful Wizard of Oz. --From the Publisher
