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The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, MON, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile

When H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Word, science and technology had already changed much about the world, and promised to change even more. Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. NO ONE WOULD have believed in last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Extraterrestrial beings”. Retained metadata contains “extraterrestrial” in the subject metadata, “Extraterrestrial beings” in the subject metadata, and “Human-alien encounters” in the subject metadata.

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1922Harper & brothersEnglishPublic

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  • Open Library reports 457 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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