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The War of the Worlds (Oxford World's Classics) by H. G. Wells; Darryl Jones is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The War of the Worlds (Oxford World's Classics) about?
'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.' One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital, wreaking chaos, death, and destruction. The novel is closely associated with anxiety about a possible invasion of Great Britain at the turn of the century, and concerns about imperial expansion and its impact, and it drew on the latest astronomical knowledge to imagine a desert planet, Mars, turning to Earth for its future. The Martians are also evolutionarily superior to mankind.
Who reads The War of the Worlds (Oxford World's Classics)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- H. G. Wells; Darryl Jones
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford;Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191007163
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (14,302 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14