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  • The War of the Worlds

  • By: H.G. Wells
  • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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By: H.G. Wells
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Orson Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds has done much to obscure the real brilliance of the original work. Written at a time when "science-fiction" did not exist as a genre, The War of the Worlds was a new departure in literature. 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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One of my favourite books of all time read by my favourite narrator. Listen to this book that inspired so many films.

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