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008 960904r19971898nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 96043700
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035 _a(Sirsi) i9780486295060
035 _a(OCoLC)35450565
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050 0 0 _aPR 5774
_b.W3 1997
100 1 _aWells, H. G.
_q(Herbert George),
_d1866-1946.
245 1 4 _aThe war of the worlds /
_cH.G. Wells.
260 _aMineola, N.Y. :
_bDover Publications,
_c1997.
300 _axii, 145 p. ;
_c21 cm.
490 1 _aDover thrift editions
505 0 _aComing of the martians: Eve of the war -- Falling-star -- On horsell common -- Cylinder opens -- Heat-ray -- Heat-ray in the Chobham Road -- How I reached home -- Friday night -- Fighting begins -- In the storm -- At the window -- What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton -- How I fell in the curate -- In London -- What had happened in Surrey -- Exodus from London -- "Thunder Child" -- Earth under the martians: Under foot -- What we saw from the ruined house -- Days of imprisonment -- Death of the curate -- Stillness -- Work of fifteen days -- Man on putney hill -- Dead London -- Wreckage -- Epilogue.
520 _aH.G. Wells' "scientific romance, " published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism in the 20th century" (from the introduction). The War of the Worlds is presented as a profoundly ideological philosophical tale, with the world of the Martians representing the progressive future of humanity in a cultural war with our world of tradition and reaction.
651 0 _aMars (Planet)
_vFiction.
650 0 _aImaginary wars and battles
_vFiction.
650 0 _aMartians
_vFiction.
650 0 _aDiseases
_vFiction.
651 0 _aEarth (Planet)
_xInvasions
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSpace vehicles
_vFiction.
655 0 _aScience fiction.
655 0 _aWar stories.
650 0 _aScience fiction.
830 0 _aDover thrift editions.
856 4 _uhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hgwells.htm
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/dover032/96043700.html
999 _c128796
_d128796