The war of the worlds

Original title: Világok harca: Mars-lakók a földön (Hungarian)

by H. G. Wells (translated by Lajos Mikes)

Summary

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The Martians intend to eliminate humankind and conquer Earth because their own older and smaller world has reached the "last stage of exhaustion". It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann.

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English translation: all 27 published chapters are available.

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Chapters (27)

  1. 1. A harc küszöbén
  2. 2. A hulló csillag
  3. 3. A horselli réten
  4. 4. A henger megnyílik
  5. 5. A hősugár
  6. 6. A hősugár a chobhami országúton
  7. 7. Hogyan értem haza?
  8. 8. Péntek éjjel
  9. 9. Kezdődik a harc
  10. 10. A viharban
  11. 11. Az ablakban
  12. 12. Mit láttam Weybridge és Shepperton pusztulásából?
  13. 13. Hogy találkoztam a tiszteletessel?
  14. 14. Londonban
  15. 15. Mi történt Surreyben?
  16. 16. A londoni kivándorlás
  17. 17. «A Villám»
  18. 18. A romok alatt
  19. 19. Mit láttunk a rombadőlt házból?
  20. 20. A fogság napjai
  21. 21. A tiszteletes halála
  22. 22. A csend
  23. 23. Két hét műve
  24. 24. A Putney-dombi férfi
  25. 25. A halott London
  26. 26. Romok
  27. 27. Befejezés

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