The War of the Worlds |
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Author:
| Wells, H. G. |
Editor:
| Parrinder, Patrick |
Introduction by:
| Aldiss, Brian |
Notes by:
| Sawyer, Andy |
Illustrator:
| Bickford-Smith, Coralie |
Series title: | Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-38270-7 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2019 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionPart 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 ...