Now in paperback, this edition brings back for today’s readers a richly rewarding collaboration between two modern masters of all that’s wonderful and strange. Characteristically quirky, elegant, and entrancing, Gorey’s visual take on Wells’s seminal tour de force was unavailable until 2005, when NYRB Classics reissued it in a special hardcover edition.
In 1960, Edward Gorey prepared a set of his inimitable pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate a new edition of The War of the Worlds for the legendary Looking Glass Library. Acording to the Lineup, Gorey was drawing by the age of 2 and had taught himself to read by 3. The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that is startlingly up-to-date yet in touch with the most ancient of human fears. Edward Gorey was a gifted child Newsday Llc/Getty Images Gorey was born in Chicago in 1925. Wells’s masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers, spawned countless imitations, and inspired dramatizations by such masters as Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg.
Wellss classic story of alien invasion.When massive, intelligent aliens. When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity’s vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use.įirst published in 1898, H. Accompanied by Edwards Goreys masterful, timelessly haunting illustrations, H. Now in paperback, and accompanied by Edward's Gorey's masterful, timelessly haunting illustrations, H. The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that is startlingly up-to-date yet in touch with the most ancient of human fears.
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