H. G. Wells 的世界大戰："The War of the Worlds" (1898) 及欲測、插圖等

H. G. Wells
Photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1920
Born	Herbert George Wells 21 September 1866 Bromley, Kent, England
Died	13 August 1946 (aged 79) Regent's Park, London, England
Occupation	Novelist, teacher, historian, journalist
Alma mater	Royal College of Science (Imperial College London)
Genre	Science fiction (notably social science fiction), social realism
Subject	World history, progress
Notable works	Ann Veronica The Outline of History The Country of the Blind The Red Room Fiction: The Time Machine The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The First Men in the Moon The Shape of Things to Come When the Sleeper Wakes
Years active	1895–1946

Statue of a tripod from The War of the Worlds in Woking, England. The book is a seminal depiction of a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

The War of the Worlds

1898 UK first edition
Author	H. G. Wells
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	William Heinemann (UK) Harper & Bros (US)
Publication date	1898[1]
Pages	287
Text	The War of the Worlds at Wikisource

Title page, 1927 Amazing Stories reprint.

"The War of the Worlds" (1898) 是"侵占英國小說類"的 "承先啟後"之作，所以Wiki有詳細解說。(Between 1871 and 1914 over 60 works of fiction for adult readers describing invasions of Great Britain were published. )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds

Henrique Alvim Correa 不只作"The War of the Worlds"的插圖：




Henrique Alvim Corrêa in 1896. Image from Jules Martin's Nos peintres et sculpteurs, Flammarion, 1898

Illustration for a 1906 edition of H. G. Wells's 1898 "The War of the Worlds"




Henrique Alvim Corréa (30 January 1876 – 7 June 1910) was a Brazilian illustrator of military and science fiction books. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and died in Brussels. He is best known for his illustrations of a French translation of H. G. Wells's novel "The War of the Worlds".[1]


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1Biography
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