![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps more than any of his other works this dramatizes humanity's fragile place in the universe, a theme that obsessed him from the first and that he desperately tried to communicate to his contemporaries" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1-105). He brings horror to very familiar doorsteps. ![]() "The dramatic effectiveness of the novel lies in the detailed realism with which Wells destroys Richmond, Kingston, and Wimbledon. ![]() Wells's best-known work, a catastrophe novel narrated by two unnamed brothers as southern England is invaded by Martians. Housed in a custom clamshell box by James Tapley, with the exterior featuring wraparound artwork of the Martian invasion, and the inner front cover featuring a different illustration of same. Hint of sunning to spine, small diagonal crease to rear endpaper, with some faint, scattered foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock contents are otherwise clean, with hinges sound an uncharacteristically bright, Near Fine copy. First Impression, Currey's state A, with the 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear dated "Autumn mdcccxcvii." Octavo (19.75cm) original grey cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover viii,303, + 16pp of publisher's ads at rear. ![]()
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