The War of the Worlds (Unabridged) Audiobook

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Recorded Books presents The War of the Worlds written by H.G. Wells and read by Alexander Spencer .

The War of the Worlds is available a downloadable version of the audiobook that can be played on iPods, iPhones, iPads, Droid phones, Blackberry's and numerous other types of devices.

Comparative Analysis

This audio book performance of The War of the Worlds is longer than average at 420 minutes long.

The War of the Worlds costs more than the average. The audio book costs $23.07 and that is 28% more than average.

Alexander Spencer's performance of The War of the Worlds has achieved a customer rating score 81 out of a possible 100 points. That's a high score and is about 10% better than the average customer rating.

Author Stats

H.G. Wells has published 36 audiobooks, including The War of the Worlds (Unabridged).

H.G. Wells's audio books are rated by listeners at 70 out of a possible 100 points this means that the author's audio books are rated about 5% worse than the average audiobook.

The average audio book written by H.G. Wells is 370 minutes long. That makes this author's audiobooks about 4% longer than the length of the the average audiobook.

H.G. Wells's average audiobook is priced at $14.84 and that makes this author's audiobooks about 18% less than the average audiobook.

Publisher Stats

Recorded Books has published 5227 audiobooks, including The War of the Worlds (Unabridged).

Listeners give Recorded Books's audio books a high score compared to other audio books. Listeners of Recorded Books's audio books score them at an average of 76. This publisher's audio books are rated about 3% better than the average audiobook

The average audiobook published by Recorded Books is 567 minutes long. The longer than average performances produced by Recorded Books are about 60% longer than the average.

Recorded Books prices their audio books at a premium. Their audiobooks are priced 51% higher than the average audiobook.

Summary:

Orson Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds has done much to obscure the original work. Written at the turn of the 19th century, before "science fiction" existed as a genre, H.G. Wells' creation was a new departure in literature. The author's deep devotion to social reform led him to use the idea of an extraterrestrial invasion to theorize about a possible violent upheaval in society - instead of "Martians" think "Bolsheviks." Wells' book is a social prophecy, and doubtless that humanistic concern contributed to it becoming one of the seminal classics of science fiction.