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The War of the Worlds

Wells, H. G.Aldiss, Brian(Introduction by)
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth ... The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common.

Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag.

But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with all-destroying heat-rays, their rashness turns rapidly to fear.

As the rays blaze towards them, it soon becomes clear they have no choice but to flee - or die. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear ...

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Penguin Classics
024138270X / 9780241382707
Hardback
823.912
06/12/2018
United Kingdom
English
Classics
240 pages
21 cm
Quiz No: 207147, Points 1.00, Book Level 4.70,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More