The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells

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Résumé

In The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells invented the myth of invasion from outer space. Martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt until the very last.

The War of the Worlds Résumé

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells

'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.' One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital, wreaking chaos, death, and destruction. The novel is closely associated with anxiety about a possible invasion of Great Britain at the turn of the century, and concerns about imperial expansion and its impact, and it drew on the latest astronomical knowledge to imagine a desert planet, Mars, turning to Earth for its future. The Martians are also evolutionarily superior to mankind.

The War of the Worlds Avis

An interesting and informative foreword and notes by Darryl Jones... I highly recommend these OWC editions - I find the forewords, without being overly long, pack in a lot of information and add a huge amount to my appreciation of the books.

À propos de H. G. Wells

Darryl Jones has taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1994. Prior to this he taught in the University of Lodz, Poland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Transylvania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Arnold/OUP 2002), It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford World's Classics, M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories (OUP, 2011, 2013) and Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales (2016).

Sommaire

Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of H. G. Wells THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Explanatory Notes

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR008627337

ISBN 13

9780198702641

ISBN 10

0198702647

Titre

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells

Auteur

H. G. Wells

Série

Oxford World's Classics

État

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Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Oxford University Press

Année de publication

2017-08-24

Nombre de pages

224

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N/A

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