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- Ranked 56th, Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, Le Monde
Man had not yet learned to fly when HG Wells conceived this story of a Martian attack on England. Giant cylinders crash to Earth, disgorging huge, unearthly creatures armed with heat-rays and fighting machines. Amid the boundless destruction they cause, it looks as if the end of the world has come.
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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898/00/00 | H G Wells | Author | "The War of the Worlds" By H G Wells arrives on Earth. | ||||
| 1898/00/00 | William Heinemann | Publisher | "The War of the Worlds" By H G Wells arrives on Earth. | ||||
| 1938/10/30 | Orson Welles | Actor, Director | Orson Welles' The Mercury Theatre dramatizes of H G Wells' "The War of the Worlds" on Halloween night. Thousands of frightened listeners called their locale police stations to find out if the world was actually being invaded by Martians. |
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| Particulars for The War of the Worlds (book): | |||
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| Definition | Aperture | an opening, hole or gap. | |
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Celestial Life | Extraterrestrial Visitor | life form from a place outside the planet Earth | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Motif | War | ||
| Information | |||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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