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  • Published: 6 December 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241382707
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $35.00

The War of the Worlds




A stunning clothbound edition of Wells' science-fiction classic

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 ...

  • Published: 6 December 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241382707
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $35.00

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