Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share War of the Worlds, The by H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
War of the Worlds, The by H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
By LibriVoxArts
War of the Worlds, The by H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) episodes
- 10 min
- 14 min
- 24 min
- 39 min
- 10 min
- 8 min
- 10 min
- 14 min
- 20 min
- 17 min
About War of the Worlds, The by H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
From the publisher's feed
H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the…
story, an English gentleman narrates the events of a violent and fast paced Martian invasion.
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 novel has served as a template for many derivative or inspired works, including comics, countless books, a TV series, several films, a bestselling musical, and the famous Orson Wells broadcast. Overall, The War of the Worlds has become an early milestone in and inspiration for the invasion genre.
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.
(Summary by Stephan Möbius and Annie Coleman)
Illustrations by Stephan Möbius
Book 1 - Chapter 1: Map of Surrey
Book 1 - Chapter 5: The Cylinder Opens - 1, The Cylinder Opens - 2
Book 1 - Chapter 11: In the Storm
Book 1 - Chapter 12: At the Window
Book 1 - Chapter 16: What Had Happened in Surrey
Book 1 - Chapter 17: The Exodus from London
Book 2 - Chapter 2: Under Foot
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 novel has served as a template for many derivative or inspired works, including comics, countless books, a TV series, several films, a bestselling musical, and the famous Orson Wells broadcast. Overall, The War of the Worlds has become an early milestone in and inspiration for the invasion genre.
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.
(Summary by Stephan Möbius and Annie Coleman)
Illustrations by Stephan Möbius
Book 1 - Chapter 1: Map of Surrey
Book 1 - Chapter 5: The Cylinder Opens - 1, The Cylinder Opens - 2
Book 1 - Chapter 11: In the Storm
Book 1 - Chapter 12: At the Window
Book 1 - Chapter 16: What Had Happened in Surrey
Book 1 - Chapter 17: The Exodus from London
Book 2 - Chapter 2: Under Foot
Best of War of the Worlds, The by H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Ranked by our users in the last 21 days
More shows like War of the Worlds, The by H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Mansfield Park (version 2) by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
67 Listeners
Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
20 Listeners
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James (1862 - 1936)
32 Listeners
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
64 Listeners
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
33 Listeners
Little Women (version 3 dramatic reading) by Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
29 Listeners
Pride and Prejudice (version 3) by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
69 Listeners
Pilgrim's Progress, The by John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
11 Listeners
Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
3 Listeners
Anne's House of Dreams (Dramatic Reading) by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)
18 Listeners