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The First Men in the Moon (Oxford World's Classics)
H. G. Wells
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'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface ... 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 ... Read more
'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface ... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198705048
SKU
V9780198705048
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About H. G. Wells
Professor Simon J. James, Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Durham. James is editor of The Wellsian, the scholarly journal of the H. G. Wells Society, and the author of Maps of Utopia (2012), the first full-length study of the aesthetics of Wells's writing.
Reviews for The First Men in the Moon (Oxford World's Classics)
[An] informative and enjoyable introduction... which sets the book in its historical and literary context.
Leah Galbraith, FictionFan
Very smart-looking new editions of SF classics.
David V Barrett, Fortean Times
Leah Galbraith, FictionFan
Very smart-looking new editions of SF classics.
David V Barrett, Fortean Times