id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9907 Invasion literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 3549 240 66 The invasion novel first was recognized as a literary genre in the UK, with the novella The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (1871), an account of a German invasion of England, which, in the Western world, aroused the national imaginations and anxieties about hypothetical invasions by foreign powers; by 1914 the genre of invasion literature comprised more than 400 novels and stories.[1] Between the publication of The Battle of Dorking in 1871 and the start of the First World War in 1914 there were hundreds of authors writing invasion literature, often topping the best seller lists in Germany, France, England and the United States.[1] During the period it is estimated over 400 invasion works were published. England Invaded (1977), a collection of six popular Invasion Literature stories edited by Michael Moorcock published in 1977. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9907.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9907.txt