Book description
With an essay by John Huntington.
'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'
In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, na ve 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.
In the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
published four of the most influential, original and hair-raising of
all works of science-fiction. In a life of tireless experiment,
travelling and intellectual engagement, Wells was both a leading
public figure and one of the great imaginers of the modern world.
Wells's other science-fiction classics The Time Machine,
The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man are
also published in the Penguin English Library.
