Picture No | 11980095 |
Date | 1897 |
Description | War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - First Publication |
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A Martian fighting machine in Kew Gardens capturing fleeing people with its long tentacles and picking them up before tossing them into the great metallic carrier which projected behind it. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). This plate comes from the first serialised version, published in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK.
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Source | Illustration by Warwick Goble (1862-1943) in Pearson’s Magazine - Volume V (July-Dec 1897) p455 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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