The war of the worlds [electronic resource] / H.G. Wells.
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SoundReference number:rbz90002389Publisher number: Z2389 | Recorded BooksSeries: SteadyReaderPublication details: Prince Frederick, MD : [Prince Frederick, Md.] : Recorded Books ; [Distributed by] OneClick Digital, 2011, p1980. Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 1 sound file (8 hr.) : digitalISBN: 9781449881696Subject(s): Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction | Space warfare -- Fiction | Mars (Planet) -- FictionGenre/Form: Downloadable audio books. | Science fiction. | War stories.Additional physical formats: War of the worldsDDC classification: 808.8992 LOC classification: PR5774 | .W3 2011bOnline resources: Click here to access online | Image Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices.Narrated by Alexander Spencer.Summary: Author H.G. Wells, deeply committed to social improvement in turn-of-the-century Britain, used extra-terrestrial invasion to predict the results of a not-entirely-impossible violent upheaval in contemporary society: for "Martians" read "bolsheviks." His book is social prophecy of the first order and only coincidentally one of the great works of science fiction.
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Downloadable audio file.
Title from title screen (viewed March 3, 2011).
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Narrated by Alexander Spencer.
16 years and up.
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices.
Author H.G. Wells, deeply committed to social improvement in turn-of-the-century Britain, used extra-terrestrial invasion to predict the results of a not-entirely-impossible violent upheaval in contemporary society: for "Martians" read "bolsheviks." His book is social prophecy of the first order and only coincidentally one of the great works of science fiction.
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