![]() ![]() His father, a prominent lawyer, died when he was seven years old. ![]() Alvim Corrêa was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1876 to a wealthy family. The illustrator was Henrique Alvim Corrêa, a Brazilian artist who lived a short but intense and productive life. It was this expensive special edition of only 500 copies that would influence the depiction of Wells’ creations for the next century. Translated editions in Dutch, German, Polish, French, Russian and Italian followed in close succession, as well as several other English language editions, and while some of them had a smattering of graphic elements - the occasional tripod on the cover or title page - the first fully illustrated edition wasn’t published until 1906. The next year the first edition of the complete novel was published. Wells first published his groundbreaking alien invasion story The War of the Worlds in serialized form in Pearson’s Magazine from April to December of 1897. ![]()
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