The War of the Worlds (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

by Brian Aldiss (Introduction), Brian Aldiss (Introduction), H. G. Wells (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $17.61

  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 ...