# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-270-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2018-12-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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 ...