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Anna wrote: "* Title: The War of the Worlds* Author(s) name(s): H.G. Wells
* Narrator: Rebecca Dittman
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9789177591146
* Publisher: Anncona Media AB
* Publication Date Year: 2017
* Publication ..."
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We need a webpage showing the ISBN/ASIN and other book data to validate the info and if available we need it for the cover image. It should be non-bookseller site (Amazon & AbeBooks excepted), so from the publisher, library or another acceptable site: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/..., if you have the book, we can use a scan/photo of your copy for the cover and the page with the publication information (you can upload a scan/photo of your own to the "more photos..." section of your profile (https://www.goodreads.com/photo/new) in the browser, not the app), then copy the link here and a librarian can add it. Make sure you state the source of the photo in the text and that your account settings are public (not private).
Eline wrote: "Anna wrote: "* Title: The War of the Worlds* Author(s) name(s): H.G. Wells
* Narrator: Rebecca Dittman
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9789177591146
* Publisher: Anncona Media AB
* Publication Date Year: 2017
*..."
For some reason I could not find the publisher's website, if they have one, but here is a link to the audiobook on libris, the swedish national library system, (the publisher is swedish), https://libris.kb.se/bib/20000587.
* Author(s) name(s): H.G. Wells
* Narrator: Rebecca Dittman
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9789177591146
* Publisher: Anncona Media AB
* Publication Date Year: 2017
* Publication Date Month: January
* Publication Date Day: 26
* Page count: 6h 27mins
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Audiobook
* Description:
The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.
The War of the Worlds was published in 1898 at a time when Wells wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time. The most important of these was the unification and militarization of Germany. At the end of century there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars.
The novel demonstrates Wells' typical pessimistic outlook on human nature and offers a good deal of criticism on society and people's ignorance and vanity. The War of the Worlds can be read as an indictment of European colonial actions around the globe at that time - with which the injustice of the Martian invasion can be compared. Wells has since been credited with predicting quite a number of technologies, such as laser-like rays, industrial robot-like machines, and chemical-warfare.
The frightening images of people fleeing from gigantic tripod machines and the prospect of life under Martian rule have served as a bottomless well of inspiration for popular culture.
The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never been out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It has even influenced the work of scientists, notably Robert Goddard, who (inspired by the book) invented both the liquid fuelled rocket and multistage rocket, which resulted in the Apollo 11 moon landing 71 years later.
* Language (for non-English books): English
* https://www.storytel.com/tv/books/the...