ISFDB banner

Title: The War of the Worlds (abridgement)

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

Title: The War of the Worlds (abridgement) Title Record # 992682
Author: H. G. Wells
Date: 1920-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: The War of the Worlds
Language: English
Note: First published in The Strand, February 1920; abridgement of the novel by Wells himself.
User Rating: This title has no votes. VOTE
Current Tags: None Add Tags

Other Titles

Variant Titles
Year Title
1920 The War of the Worlds

Publications

Not displaying variants or translations • Display all variants and translationsDo not display translations

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Strand Magazine, February 1920 1920-02-00 ed. Editors of The Strand Magazine George Newnes  
1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
102
octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
Movie Monsters: Great Horror Film Stories 1988-05-00 ed. Peter Haining Severn House 0-7278-1546-6
£10.95?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
282
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond 2019-09-12 ed. Mike Ashley British Library Publishing (British Library Science Fiction Classics #8) 978-0-7123-5269-7
£8.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
364
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Warwick Goble  
View all covers for The War of the Worlds (abridgement) (logged in users can change User Preferences to always display covers on this page)
Copyright © 1995-2025 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team
ISFDB Engine - Version 4.00 (2006-04-24)