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When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule. Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels, The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published подробнее
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells • 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' • In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
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The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works. It shows the whole of human civilization under threat, as terrifying, tentacled Martians land in England, build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear
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The War of the Worlds introduced the idea of alien invasion to the world. Featuring inscrutable extra-terrestrials armed with a terrifying array of weapons, including the Heat-Ray, robotic killing machines walking on three legs, and 'black smoke', the novel resonated with Victorian Britain. The ingenious creations of Wells' mind stood out from the abundance of invasion literature that was flooding the market at the time
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В "Войне миров" Герберт Уэллс создал образ масштабной экзистенциальной угрозы человечеству - угрозы, заставляющей по-новому оценить все те достижения, к которым пришли люди к началу ХХ века. Чего стоит пресловутый "прогресс", социальные и экономические перемены в критической ситуации? Сможет ли человек выжить, когда государство бессильно и он из гражданина, наделенного обширным набором прав и свобод, становится просто дичью, объектом охоты? • Книга на английском языке • For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive • In this thrilling tale of alien invasion, H. G. Wells rewrites the science fiction genre. Following the travails of an unnamed narrator, The War of the Worlds reveals the true terror of life under an implacable and enigmatic foe
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design • From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth • The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag. But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with all-destroying heat-rays, their rashness turns rapidly to fear. As the rays blaze towards them, it soon becomes clear they have no choice but to flee - or die • The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear
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"For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive." • When an alien capsule lands on Horsell Common, Woking, crowds of astonished onlookers gather. But wonder soon turns to terror when the Martians emerge. Armed with deadly heat rays, the aliens begin their conquest of earth. Confronted by powers beyond our control, a technology far in advance of our own, and a race of alien invaders which regard us as no more than ants, humankind faces extinction • While the world crumbles under the shadow of the Martian menace, one man sets out alone across the desolate wasteland to find his wife
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Издательство HarperCollins с гордостью представляет серию популярной классической литературы • Когда странный объект, похожий на метеорит, падает в самом сердце Англии, обитатели Земли подвергаются чудовищному нападению. Беспощадные марсиане, вооружённые смертельно опасными тепловыми лучами и ядовитым дымом, хотят уничтожить всё на своём пути. Безымянный герой путешествует по руинам старого мира, пока будущее Земля балансирует на грани • Герберт Уэллс - первопроходец и один из основоположников современной фантастики. "Война миров", впервые вышедшая в свет в 1897 году - одна из первых историй о конфликте с инопланетянами, неоднократно адаптированная и получившая ряд продолжений • Книга на английском языке • HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics
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One night a shooting star is seen over the skies of Surrey. The next day, it's discovered to have been a mysterious metallic cylinder from Mars. What comes next is a terrifying alien attack, as tentacled Martian invaders emerge from the cylinder and prey on humankind using shocking new weapons against which the people of Victorian England can offer no resistance • The aliens begin to devastate the area in their tripod machines, and as our narrator struggles to return to his wife, the fight for London - and the world - begins
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Mysterious explosions on the surface of Mars signal the beginning of an alien invasion. Soon the ruthless creatures are terrorizing Earth with their unstoppable death rays. Can nothing prevent these merciless Martians from taking over the world? H.G. Wells' classic story of Martian invasion, vividly retold for newly independent readers
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HG Wells' thrilling 'scientific romance' about the Martian landings in Woking and the terrifying alien conquest of London has captured imaginations since 1898, not least in 1938 when Orson Welles' radio dramatization caused panic in New York
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Read this stunning Vintage Classics edition of the original story of alien invasion from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells • 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; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us • Then, late one night, in the middle of the English countryside, they landed
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Герберт Уэллс (1866–1946) знаменит прежде всего своими фантастическими произведениями, основные темы которых (полеты в космосе, атомное оружие, применение лазера, идея невидимости) в современной литературе стали общим местом, а некоторые сменили жанровую принадлежность, обретя реалистичность не только в книгах, но и в обыденной жизни • Роман «Война миров» (1897) изображает вторжение марсиан на Землю: целью своей агрессии они выбрали старую добрую Англию. Техническое, интеллектуальное и военное превосходство инопланетных захватчиков, кажется, не оставляет людям шанса, пусть даже некоторые из них демонстрируют силу духа и отвагу. Не героизм одиночек поможет землянам выжить в бойне, устроенной пришельцами, а простое везение: куда страшнее артиллерии для марсиан окажутся обычные бактерии
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