# The War of the Worlds

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- Book: [The War of the Worlds](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds) ([The War of the Worlds.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds.md))
- Authors: [H.G. Wells](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-420-0
- Published: 2012-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

With an essay by John Huntington. '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.