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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
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Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this thrilling science fiction classic.
A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late-ninteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written - a world with great fears for its security and long-term stability. H.G. Wells predicts the brutal savagery of twentieth-century warfare through the lens of interplanetary conflict. This edition features a new introduction by Aaron Parrett.
The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed.
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ClásicosTHE LIFE AND TIMES OF H. G. WELLS
| 1866 | 21 September | Herbert George Wells is born at 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent | ||
| 1874 | | Wells enters Thomas Morley’s Commercial Academy | ||
| 1877 | 1 January | Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India | ||
| 1878 | 25 May | Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore premieres at the Opera Comique, Strand, London | ||
| 1879 | October | Wells leaves Morley’s for the National School in Somerset where he stays only a few months | ||
| 1880 | January | Wells boards briefly at Midhurst Grammar School as a student-teacher | ||
| | Summer | The arrangements at Midhurst not working out, Wells’s parents contract him as a draper’s apprentice at the Southsea Drapery Emporium, Hyde’s | ||
| | 2 August | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is adopted as the standard time throughout Great Britain | ||
| 1881 | 10 October | The D’Oyly Carte Savoy Theatre opens and is the first building in Britain fully lit by electricity | ||
| 1883 | 23 May | Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is published by Cassell & Co., London | ||
| | Summer | Wells is released from his apprenticeship and returns to Midhurst Grammar School as a student teacher | ||
| 1884 | 4 January | The Fabian Society is founded | ||
| | Autumn | Wells wins a scholarship to the Normal School of Science, London where he studies biology under Thomas Henry Huxley | ||
| 1887 | 21 June | Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Thanksgiving service is held at Westminster Abbey | ||
| | November | Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet appears in Beeton’s Christmas Annual | ||
| 1888 | | Wells’s short story “The Chronic Argonauts” is published by the Royal College of Science | ||
| 1889 | | Wells receives his diploma from the College of Preceptors and begins teaching at Henley House School, Kilburn, London | ||
| | 6 August | London’s Savoy Hotel opens | ||
| 1890 | | Wells receives his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of London | ||
| 1891 | April | Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is published by Ward Lock & Co., London | ||
| | | Wells marries his cousin, Isabel Mary Wel... |