The War of the Worlds is the most important and influential invasion narrative ever written, as well as being one of the tiny handful of the most important scientific romances ever written
Includes a lively and accessible introduction by a leading scholar of late Victorian popular fiction
Includes an up-to-date bibliography, chronology, and notes to provide addional contextual interest
This edition uses the first-edition English texts
Fully annotated, with meticulous attention to the novel`s use of geographical locations in and around London