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The War of the Worlds in Easy Spanish

The Complete Novel in 58 Short Episodes, in Spanish That Grows With You

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Cover of The War of the Worlds in Easy Spanish: an engraving of a Martian fighting machine on three legs, its heat-ray over a burning English town.
Drawing by Henrique Alvim Corrêa: a Martian machine on three legs striding over the trees.

The story

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 still think it is a Sunday attraction. Then come the Heat-Ray, the machines on three legs and the Black Smoke.

Same method and level as the other three readers, with a new setting and new words. Illustrated with forty drawings by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, Brussels, 1906, the only illustrated edition Wells approved.

  • A2 to B1
  • 58 episodes
  • 90 pages
  • Word notes on every page
  • EPUB, PDF and audiobook

How it reads

The episodes
Fifty-eight of them, about five minutes each, and the novel entire between them.
The word notes
The two to four words most likely to slow you down, at the foot of the page you are on.
The pauses
Twelve breaks: the words of the last five episodes, and one sentence exactly as Wells wrote it in 1898.
The glossary
Two hundred and thirteen entries at the end, in the same wording used on the page.
No exercises
Nothing to fill in and nothing to test. This is a novel, not a course.
The level
It starts below A2 on purpose and grows as the invasion goes on.