H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds

Cover: 9780198702641 | The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2017

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Beschreibung

'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.'

One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital, wreaking chaos, death, and destruction. The novel is closely associated with anxiety about a possible invasion of Great Britain at the turn of the century, and concerns about imperial expansion and its impact, and it drew on the latest astronomical knowledge to imagine a desert planet, Mars, turning to Earth for its future. The Martians are also evolutionarily superior to mankind.

Über den Autor

Darryl Jones has taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1994. Prior to this he taught in the University of Lodz, Poland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Transylvania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Arnold/OUP 2002), It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford World's Classics, M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories (OUP, 2011, 2013) and Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales (2016).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of H. G. Wells

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Explanatory Notes

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Oxford World's Classics
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198702641
ISBN-10:	0198702647
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wells, H. G.
Redaktion:	Jones, Darryl
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press Oxford World's Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	195 x 129 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	H. G. Wells
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.08.2017
Gewicht:	0,17 kg