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H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

Name: The War of the Worlds
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: cd1212a3-625f-4e1f-11e5-647b4c1aab39
Price: 30.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: H. G. Wells

Original publication: 1898
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 369
Difficulty: ★★☆
Genres: Science Fiction
Translated from: English

Book summary

A London narrator sees his daily life overturned when cylinders from Mars crash onto Earth. Alien machines quickly emerge and begin to destroy everything in their path, far exceeding human capabilities. Faced with this unexpected threat, panic spreads and survival becomes the only priority. The narrative follows the progressive disintegration of society in the face of an unknown force. The author constructs a tense, visionary work on human fragility and the limits of progress.

The plot

A cylinder from the sky opens from within. One morning, near London, an astronomer finds a huge metal cylinder half buried in the sand. Then the lid begins to turn, very slowly: someone inside is unscrewing it.

The world of the book

Around 1895, people wonder if Mars is inhabited. In 1894, the American astronomer Percival Lowell draws Mars covered in long straight lines. To him, they are canals dug by intelligent beings, and his books captivate…

The author

H. G. Wells. The son of small shopkeepers, H. G. Wells first worked, as a teenager, for a draper. At 18, a scholarship allowed him to study science in London under the biologist Thomas Huxley, a great champion of…

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