The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells | Full audiobook

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Multiple times adapted for the screen (including by Steven Spielberg), and in 1938 reworked by Orson Welles into a radio drama, the broadcast of which went down in history. Read years later, it turns out to be a prophetic work, a kind of foreshadowing of the 20th-century world wars.
How do people - both individuals and entire communities - behave in the face of an invasion that threatens mass destruction? Who are we to the invaders, and who are they to us? What role do new technologies play in this? And what can save us? Herbert George Wells attempts to answer these questions in a way that remains attractive to contemporary readers, and perhaps the widespread sense of unease, uncertainty, and threat makes "The War of the Worlds" a compelling and relevant novel even in the 21st century.
'The War of the Worlds,' H.G. Wells's most brilliant work, is also one of the few novels that, going beyond the fantastical nature of its assumptions, has entered the treasury of world literature.
Table of contents:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:24 Book One. The Coming Of The Martians
00:00:32 I.The Eve Of The War
00:14:40 II.The Falling Star
00:22:42 III.On Horsell Common
00:28:48 IV.The Cylinder Opens
00:35:39 V.The Heat-Ray
00:45:02 VI.The Heat-Ray In The Chobham Road
00:50:10 VII.How I Reached Home
00:58:36 VIII.Friday Night
01:04:33 IX.The Fighting Begins
01:16:52 X.In The Storm
01:30:08 XI.At The Window
01:42:19 XII.What I Saw Of The Destruction Of Weybridge And Shepperton
02:05:37 XIII.How I Fell In With The Curate
02:17:00 XIV.In London
02:40:14 XV.What Had Happened In Surrey
02:57:52 XVI.The Exodus From London
03:24:26 XVII.The “Thunder Child”
03:44:36 Book Two. The Earth Under The Martians
03:44:40 I.Under Foot
04:00:35 II.What We Saw From The Ruined House
04:21:28 III.The Days Of Imprisonment
04:33:21 IV.The Death Of The Curate
04:43:29 V.The Stillness
04:49:24 VI.The Work Of Fifteen Days
04:57:09 VII.The Man On Putney Hill
05:31:53 VIII.Dead London
05:51:00 IX.Wreckage
06:02:14 X.The Epilogue
Created by:
▶ Narrated by Arthur Lane
▶ Edited by Martin Gold
▶ Graphic by Jordan Harvey
Author: Herbert George Wells
Language: English
Genre: Science Fiction
Version: Unabridged, Complete, Full length
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@gatesofimagination 9 ай бұрын

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@jamesaslevin 12 күн бұрын

Best book ever ❤

@deewhite4346 9 ай бұрын

❤ thank you for another great read.👏

@peterashby-saracen3681 7 ай бұрын

This book is a masterpiece and is still the best of all tales of alien invasion - the stark descriptions of how ordinary people react to the extraordinary are brilliantly and terrifyingly imagined. I first read it way back in the late 70s (when I was living in the part of Surrey where the first part of the book is set) and I'd forgotten so many of the details until listening to this all in one sitting. Spielberg's ghastly version is a pale and dreadful travesty in comparison to the book, as are all the other attempts to rehash what HG Wells did so superbly. Sadly, we're unlikely to ever see an absolutely faithful-tothe-last-detail cinematic or serialised version that respects the setting and the period 100 percent... but wouldn't that be amazing!! (maybe a project for Peter Jackson?)

@MalcolmSchafer Ай бұрын

Surrey England? Or Surrey in Vancouver

@solorfi Ай бұрын

That is my dream to have a movie worthy of the book

@djnefario4566 13 күн бұрын

@@MalcolmSchaferEngland.

@MalcolmSchafer 13 күн бұрын

@@djnefario4566 ah

@MalcolmSchafer 13 күн бұрын

@@djnefario4566 yes basically like over here is named after there too lol Surrey Westminster London

@justjones5430 Күн бұрын

I'd like to hear this read by either Richard Burton, or Oliver Postgate. 😊

@jimmartin1803 23 күн бұрын

Great reading ruined by too many commercials.

@leemclaren2518 Күн бұрын

KZfaq premium then. Same as the rest of us concerned about ads. Creators need to make a living the same as the rest of us.

@mucro849 5 ай бұрын

The Martians must be very tough to survive such a hard landing.

@MalcolmSchafer Ай бұрын

What?

@johnlloyd3377 23 күн бұрын

Yes, no parachute or reverse thrusters for a soft landing. I lived on Strand Rd. which runs along side Horsell Common.

@manamsetty2664 16 күн бұрын

@@johnlloyd3377 So you experienced this situation with the martians or did your parents or grandparents experience this horrible situation

@johnlloyd3377 15 күн бұрын

@@manamsetty2664 My grandfather remembered the events exactly as related by the author. However, on that fateful morning he walked to the train station in Woking as normal and boarded his usual early morning commuter train into London Waterloo for his job in Half Moon Street in Mayfair. The rest is history.

@manamsetty2664 15 күн бұрын

@@johnlloyd3377 so his experiences were similar to that of the authors brother who was in London i guess No wonder Britain won both world wars they had so much experience with alien tech While here in India it was virtually non existent just the British drinking their chai 🤧😂