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War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | 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 Eric Brown (Retold by); Felix Bennett (Illustrator); H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Baker Street Readers Ser.
No one would have believed that planet Earth was being watched by creatures more intelligent than humankind.But planet Earth was not only being watched - soon it would be invaded by monstrous creatures from Mars who strode about the land in great mechanical tripods, bringing death and destruction with t ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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
When the Sleeper Wakes - (Dystopian Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Dystopian Classics Ser.
"When the Sleeper Wakes" by H.G. Wells centers around a young man, Graham who wakes up 200 years later and is astonished to see how much the world has progressed. Graham discovers that he is the possessor of over half the world. Dystopian Classic Editions publishes works of dystopian literature that hav ...Show more