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  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141199047
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

The War of the Worlds




Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library

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, naïve 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.

  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141199047
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

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The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Botchan
Military Dispatches
The Prelude

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