War of the Worlds
Publisher: Pocket
Published: September 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780671673048
Subjects: Science Fiction - General; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics
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.