Download or read book The War of the Worlds: Large Print (Reader Classics) written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Print (Reader Classics) are printed with easy-to-read fonts and feature type size which conforms to large print industry standards. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialized in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial 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.