Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The War of the Worlds
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: David Harewood
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Buy Now for £13.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for the Best Solo Narration Award at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.
This Penguin Classic is performed by the critically acclaimed actor David Harewood, one of the stars of the television series Homeland. Harewood is also known for his roles in award-winning productions The Night Manager and Blood Diamond. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Brian Aldiss' read by Roy McMillan.
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.
The War of the Worlds has been the subject of countless adaptations, including an Orson Welles radio drama which caused mass panic when it was broadcast, with listeners confusing it for a news broadcast heralding alien invasion; a musical version by Jeff Wayne; and, most recently, Steven Spielberg's 2005 film version, starring Tom Cruise.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a professional writer and journalist. Among his most popular works are The Time Machine (1895); The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), filmed with Bela Lugosi in 1932, and again in 1996 with Marlon Brando; The Invisible Man (1897); The War of the Worlds (1898); and The First Men in the Moon (1901), which predicted the first lunar landings.
What listeners say about The War of the Worlds
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Eddie D
- 24-09-23
Amazingly read classic.
Well worth adding to your libary.
10 out of 10.
A well read stort of an all time classic.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- philip Passey
- 17-04-24
Story about my local area
Spoilt by incorrect pronounced local town names. This became more annoying as the story went on. But interesting to hear the story with reference to my local area.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- "akahorizon"
- 13-12-22
Brilliance announced
This story that I thought I knew through film and song has just woken me with profound storytelling abilities. An honour to listen to.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- pegster74
- 16-02-23
Brilliant!
A cult classic, brilliantly narrated by David Harewood! I would definitely recommend it to friends.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Paul Warren
- 30-04-21
Great book.
Great book, never read the original, so only had the musical version to go by. Even had the music playing in my head when listening. Would listen again. I think a trip through Time is next on the list.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- RuthieRavie
- 28-03-24
Classic but dreadful narration
I love the story - always have - but my word! The narrator almost made me give up. The most dullest voice ever. If I didn’t know the story - I would never have got to the end! Waste of a credit
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- M Constable
- 14-01-24
Loved it
Great book would recommend to all, very well read, brought back my childhood happy memories
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Tj hudson
- 14-12-23
A Classic
great great book. wasn't blown away with the narrator! a Classic none the less.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Nigel
- 19-11-22
Touched by awe…..
Excellent reading, (ignore the inevitable naysayers) intelligent and touched by awe and melancholy at the destruction and human folly in Well’s surprisingly insightful pioneering work.
If only we had him with us in the face of global warming, plastics and (ironically in the face of the denouement of this novel) pandemics.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Joseph
- 10-05-23
brilliant classic
a well know brilliant classic, but my god someone needs to invent a time machine and give HG wells a thesaurus i am sick of the word tumultuous.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!