ISBN The War of the Worlds English

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.