E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten
Wells THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (Annotated)
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-80-268-7721-9
Verlag: e-artnow
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Enriched Edition. A Victorian Alien Invasion Classic of Martian War, Imperial Anxiety, and Apocalyptic Survival
E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten
ISBN: 978-80-268-7721-9
Verlag: e-artnow
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. It is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother in London as Earth is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The unnamed narrator, a philosophically inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to the southern country outside London. 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 a paddle steamer near Tillingham, on the Essex coast. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
