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Best Selling Books by H. G. WellsH. G. Wells is the author of The War of the Worlds (Illustrated) (2022), H. G. Wells (2012), THE INVISIBLE MAN (2023), A Short History of the World (2023), The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (2017).
The War of the Worlds (Illustrated)
release date: May 23, 2022
release date: Oct 01, 2012
release date: Dec 24, 2023
A Short History of the World
release date: Feb 04, 2023
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
The First Men On The Moon
release date: Jan 01, 2021
The War of the Worlds : Illustrated Classics
release date: Jan 01, 2021
THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
release date: Dec 24, 2023
release date: Dec 05, 2019
release date: Sep 02, 2022
release date: Oct 12, 2015
The Land Ironclads (A rare science fiction story by H. G. Wells)
release date: Dec 29, 2023
The First Men In The Moon
release date: Oct 12, 2015
The War of the Worlds / La Guerre des Mondes
release date: May 08, 2017
release date: Oct 12, 2015
The War of the Worlds (1898): Science Fiction
release date: Oct 08, 2018
The narrative opens by stating that as humans on Earth busied themselves with their own endeavours during the 1890s, aliens on Mars began plotting an invasion of Earth to replenish their limited resources. In 1899 the narrator is invited to an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw where explosions are seen on the surface of the planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community. Later, a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common, near the unnamed narrator''s home in Woking, Surrey. He is among the first to discover that the object is an artificial cylinder that opens, disgorging Martians who are "big" and "greyish" with "oily brown skin," "the size, perhaps, of a bear," each with "two large dark-coloured eyes," and lipless "V-shaped mouths" which drip saliva and are surrounded by two "Gorgon groups of tentacles." The narrator finds them "at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous."[7] They briefly emerge, have difficulty in coping with the Earth''s atmosphere and gravity, and rapidly retreat into their cylinder. A human deputation (which includes the astronomer Ogilvy) approaches the cylinder with a white flag, but the Martians incinerate them and others nearby with a heat-ray before beginning to assemble their machinery. Military forces arrive that night to surround the common, including Maxim guns. The population of Woking and the surrounding villages are reassured by the presence of the British Army. A tense day begins, with much anticipation of military action by the narrator.After heavy firing from the common and damage to the town from the heat-ray which suddenly erupts in the late afternoon, the narrator takes his wife to safety in nearby Leatherhead, where his cousin lives, using a rented, two-wheeled horse cart; he then returns to Woking to return the cart when in the early morning hours, a violent thunderstorm erupts. On the road during the height of the storm, he has his first terrifying sight of a fast-moving Martian fighting-machine; in a panic he crashes the horse cart, barely escaping detection. He discovers the Martians have assembled towering three-legged "fighting-machines" (tripods), each armed with a heat-ray and a chemical weapon: the poisonous "black smoke." These tripods have wiped out the army units positioned around the cylinder and attacked and destroyed most of Woking. Sheltering in his house, the narrator sees a fleeing artilleryman moving through his garden, who later tells the narrator of his experiences and mentions that another cylinder has landed between Woking and Leatherhead, cutting off the narrator from his wife. The two try to escape via Byfleet just after dawn, but are separated at the Shepperton to Weybridge Ferry during a Martian afternoon attack on Shepperton. One of the Martian fighting-machines is brought down in the River Thames by artillery as the narrator and countless others try to cross the river into Middlesex, as the Martians retreat back to their original crater. This gives the authorities precious hours to form a defence-line covering London. After the Martians'' temporary repulse, the narrator is able to float down the Thames in a boat toward London, stopping at Walton, where he first encounters the curate, his companion for the coming weeks.... Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games.
The Magic Shop Herbert George Wells
release date: Mar 10, 2017
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