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The First Men in the Moon
by H G Wells
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At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the most uneventful place in the world the failed playwright Mr. Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr. Cavor, and together they invade the moon.
Dreaming respectively of scientific renown and of mineral wealth, they fashion a sphere from the gravity-defying substance Cavorite and go where no human has gone before. They expect a dead world, but instead they find lunar plants that grow in a single day, giant moon-calves and the ant-like Selenites, the super-adapted inhabitants of the Moon's utopian society.
The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, and a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain and of utopian dreams of a wholly ordered and rational society.
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2017"--t.p. verso.
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- Oxford University Press, Brand
- Jan 12, 2017 Pub Date:
- 0198705042 ISBN-10:
- 9780198705048 ISBN-13:
- 256 Pages
- 7.6 in * 5 in * 0.6 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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