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Ideal for gcse english andor any students new to h. The war of the worlds 8 of 293 thebye, that for count less centuries mars has been the star of warbut failed to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well. Wells narrator jumps from talking about the whole world, to talking about himself, to. The story, written in a semidocumentary style, is told in the first person by an unnamed. Jul 23, 2007 listen to war of the worlds audiobook by h. The war of the worlds by hg wells was written more than a century ago and went on to become an iconic work in the science fiction genre, spawning a whole new genre of literature featuring alien invaders. It was in fact the first book to present the idea of conflict between inhabitants of different planets.
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