The War of the Worlds
Series: Tor Classics
Publisher: Aerie
Published: December 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812505153
Subjects: Classics; Science Fiction - General; Fiction / Classics; Literature: Classics; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: NO ONE WOULD have believed in last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.