Books·The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds in Easy Spanish
The Complete Novel in 58 Short Episodes, in Spanish That Grows With You
An astronomer near Woking watches jets of fire leave Mars, ten nights running, and nobody says the word for what they are. Then a metal cylinder comes down in the sand pits at Horsell, the lid starts to turn from the inside, and the people walking out to look at it are still treating it as a Sunday attraction.
What comes after is the Heat-Ray, the machines on three legs, the Black Smoke, six million people on the four roads out of London, and a man walking home through an empty country.
Same method as the other two readers and the same level, so it slots in wherever you are: a different story, a different vocabulary, and the Spanish you already have. Illustrated with forty of the drawings Henrique Alvim Corrêa made for the Brussels edition of 1906, the only illustrated edition Wells approved in his lifetime.
This is the first book of the three that is not a travel story. If you have read the other two, the settings and the words are new; the grammar is the same ground you already walk on.
How it reads
- The episodesFifty-eight of them, about five minutes each, and the novel entire between them.
- The word notesThe two to four words most likely to slow you down, at the foot of the page you are on.
- The pausesEvery five episodes there is a break, twelve in the book: the words of those episodes gathered together, and one sentence exactly as Wells wrote it in 1898.
- The glossaryTwo hundred and thirteen entries at the end, in the same wording used on the page.
- The engravingsForty drawings by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, Brussels, 1906.
- No exercisesNothing to fill in and nothing to test. This is a novel, not a course.
- The levelIt starts below A2 on purpose and grows as the invasion goes on.
