H. G. Wells 4 hr 29 min read

No one believed that human affairs were being watched by intelligences greater than ours, until the Martians' cylinders fell, and their tripods began to lay waste to the Earth.

This is H. G. Wells's 1898 'The War of the Worlds' in a gorgeously illustrated French edition, the foundational alien-invasion novel. Terrifying, prophetic, endlessly influential. Read it for the great original of the invasion story, as chilling now as ever, in French.

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Alvim Corrêa