The War of the Worlds
Imaginative, highly readable novel that helped launch the science-fiction genre exploits the concept of interplanetary travel with its gripping account of hostile invaders from Mars who use deadly heat rays to decimate all life in their path. Energetic, intense, and strikingly original.
Imaginative, highly readable novel that helped launch the science-fiction genre exploits the concept of interplanetary travel with its gripping account of hostile invaders from Mars who use deadly heat rays to decimate all life in their path. Energetic, intense, and strikingly original.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486295060 (0486295060)
Publish date: 1997-01-10
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
W roku 1898 Maria Skłodowska-Curie i Piotr Curie odkryli dwa pierwiastki: polon i rad. W tym samym roku Herbert George Wells opublikował swoją powieść „Wojna światów”, która przez wielu uznawana jest za jedną z najważniejszych w historii światowej literatury fantastycznej. Wells w swojej książce ...
As I mentioned in my last post, I'd like to thank Halloween Bingo (and OB & MR) for making me read those classic novels that I'd always intended to get to "someday". This book was fantastic, and Simon Vance's excellent narration made it even better. This is definitely one I'll revisit in the futur...
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 and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost a...
Still my favourite book, still good after the umpteenth reread.
I think my expectations were a little too high for this one.The War of the Worlds was my first encounter with H.G. Wells, and I really hope I enjoy some of his other works more than this one. I think it was the POV that made it so difficult for me to get through and enjoy, because the narrator bored...
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