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H.G.WELLS-THE WAR OF THE WORLDS/1898/RARE 1st Edition/FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION
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VERY RARE - SCARCE EDITION - RARE FIRST EDITION
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
by
H. G. WELLS

LONDON: William Heinemann, MDCCCXCVIII. 1898. [published date: 1898]. RARE FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.75\" x 5.5\" inches. (LxB). Pp. x, 219 pages + 32-page publisher\'s catalogue inserted at rear,. original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher\'s monogram stamped in black on rear panel, edges untrimmed. First edition. An early copy with 32 page publisher\'s catalogue inserted at rear. Rare First edition of H.G. Wells’ classic and influential scientific romance. Almost all of Wells\' best science fiction has an evolutionary subtext. The British Empire, like all others before it, represented the successful predation of the weak by the strong, and that was the subject, in a metamorphosed form, of The War of the Worlds \". \"The novel is a tour de force whose innumerable fictional offspring include numerous adaptations and homages. The novel was immediately taken up in Britain and America, and translated into European languages. It has remained popular ever since, spawning many imitations, fathering all invasion-of-earth stories, yet transcending them in the grandeur of its concept.\" \"The great classic of interplanetary invasion ..... a forceful, sophisticated novel that remains original, intense, and provocative today... still the most remarkable fantasy of imaginary warfare that has so far appeared in the history of the genre.\" A classic work. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition.

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The War of the Worlds is ascience fiction novel by English authorH. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson\'s Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It is thefirst-person narrative of an unnamedprotagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother inLondon asEarth is invaded byMartians. Written between 1895 and 1897,[2] it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and anextraterrestrial race.[3] The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.[4]The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The narrator, a philosophically inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to the southern country outsideLondon. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events as they deteriorate in the capital, forcing him to escape the Martian onslaught by boarding apaddle steamer nearTillingham, on the Essex coast. The plot has been related toinvasion literature of the time. The novel has been variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory,British Imperialism, and generally Victorian superstitions, fears and prejudices. At the time of publication it was classified as ascientific romance, like his earlier novel The Time Machine. The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never gone out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It has even influenced the work of scientists, notablyRobert Hutchings Goddard. The War of the Worlds has spawned several feature films, as well as various radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, video games, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. Among the most famous, or infamous, adaptations is the1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and directed byOrson Welles. The first two-thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a news bulletin and led to outrage and panic by some listeners who had believed the events described in the program were real.[58]In 1953 came the firstWar of the Worlds theatrical film produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin, starringGene Barry.Steven Spielberg directed a2005 film adaptation starringTom Cruise, which received generally positive reviews.[59][60]In the 1980s a joint American-Canadian venture produced the television series War of the Worlds that ran for two seasons and was a direct sequel to George Pal\'s 1953 feature film. Its premise was that the Martians had not died-off but were instead stored in suspension by the U.S. government, and that most people had just forgotten the previous invasion; the accidental awakening of the Martians results in another war.

  • Works by H. G. Wells Nonfiction Crux Ansata· The Fate of Man· Floor Games· The Future in America: A Search After Realities· Little Wars· The New World Order· The Open Conspiracy· The Outline of History· Russia in the Shadows· The Science of Life· A Short History of the World· Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water· World Brain Novels Ann Veronica· Bealby· Christina Alberta\'s Father· The Dream· The First Men in the Moon· The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth· The History of Mr Polly· The Invisible Man· The Island of Dr Moreau· Joan And Peter· Kipps· Love and Mr Lewisham· Marriage· Men Like Gods· A Modern Utopia· Mr. Britling Sees It Through· The New Machiavelli· The Passionate Friends· The Research Magnificent· The Sea Lady· The Secret Places Of The Heart· The Shape of Things to Come· The Sleeper Awakes· The Soul Of A Bishop· Star-Begotten· The Time Machine· Tono-Bungay· The Undying Fire· The War in the Air· The War of the Worlds· The Wheels of Chance· The Wife Of Sir Isaac Harman· The Wonderful Visit· The World Set Free· In the Days of the Comet Collections The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents· The Plattner Story and Others· Tales of Space and Time· Twelve Stories and a Dream· The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Short
    stories \"The Chronic Argonauts\"· \"The Country of the Blind\"· \"The Crystal Egg\"· \"A Deal in Ostriches\"· \"Empire of the Ants\"· \"The Land Ironclads\"· \"The Man Who Could Work Miracles\"· \"Mr. Ledbetter\'s Vacation\"· \"The New Accelerator\"· \"The Pearl of Love\"· \"The Queer Story of Brownlow\'s Newspaper\"· \"The Red Room\"· \"The Star\"· \"The Stolen Body\"· \"A Story of the Days to Come\"· \"A Story of the Stone Age\"· \"Triumphs of a Taxidermist\"· \"The Truth About Pyecraft\"· \"A Vision of Judgment\" Screenplays Things to Come· The Man Who Could Work Miracles· The New Faust Film
    adaptations A Trip to the Moon (1902)· The First Men in the Moon (1919)· The Invisible Man (1933)· Island of Lost Souls (1933)· Things to Come (1936)· The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937)· The History of Mr. Polly (1949)· The War of the Worlds (1953)· The Time Machine (1960)· First Men in the Moon (1964)· Half a Sixpence (1967)· The Food of the Gods (1967)· The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)· Empire of the Ants (1977)· The Time Machine (1978)· The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1983)· The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)· The Time Machine (2002)· War of the Worlds (2005)· H.G. Wells\' War of the Worlds (2005) · H.G. Wells\' The War of the Worlds (2005) · H G Wells: War with the World (2006)· War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008) · The First Men in the Moon (2010)

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