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The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations and Appendices

The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations and Appendices

Wells, H. G.

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Series: Annotated H.G. Wells, Book 4

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ISBN10: 0786468726
ISBN13: 9780786468720
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 2 2012
Pages: 333
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Wells' novel, a scientific romance, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast Invasion from Mars by the redoubtable Orson Welles. It was also notably made into an early fifties science fiction adventure movie (and there have been other adaptations as well). So indelible is the association that the novel, like the panic inducing broadcast and the Hollywood flick, now is taken as little more than a light fantasy of outerspace terror and human heroism, far from the author's original vision. The War of the Worlds is a philosophical tale and as such, is profoundly ideological. The world of the Martians represents the progressive future of humanity in a cultural war with our world of tradition and reaction--these are the two worlds in question.

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