The War of the Worlds
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Published: May 1987
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780745130781
Subjects: Imaginary wars and battles; Large type books; Space warfare; Fiction
First sentence: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.