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H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

Name: The War of the Worlds
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: cd1212a3-625f-4e1f-11e5-647b4c1aab39
Price: 24.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: H. G. Wells

Original publication: 1898
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 361
Difficulty: ★★☆
Translated from: English

About this book

A London narrator sees his daily life overturned when cylinders from Mars crash onto Earth. Alien machines quickly emerge and begin to destroy everything in their path, far exceeding human capabilities. Faced with this unexpected threat, panic spreads and survival becomes the only priority. The narrative follows the progressive disintegration of society in the face of an unknown force. The author constructs a tense, visionary work on human fragility and the limits of progress.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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