The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor.
He was proli?c in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science ?ction novels. “The First Men in the Moon” is a scienti?c novel, which tells the story ...
... men's return home would put the moon at risk of invasion from the earth (a kind of reversal of the plot of The War of the ... the next month'.7 inspired by Marconi's recent successes in sending Morse code messages by means of wireless ...
It is scarcely necessary to go into the details of the speculations that landed me at Lympne, in Kent.
When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absentminded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity.
... man suddenly and violently killed would feel very much as I did. One moment, a passion of agonising existence and fear; the next darkness and stillness, neither light nor life nor sun, moon nor stars, the blank infinite. Although the ...
The First Men In The Moon
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When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absentminded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity.
The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades.
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON capture the Spirit of adventure, the thirst for change, for the new, that stirs beneath man's apparent want of stability and calm.
The First Men in the Moon is a science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells.
The First Men in the Moon is a science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells.
On Earth, an investigation team finds the last of the Victorian crew - a now aged Arnold Bedford and he tells them the story of how he and his girlfriend, Katherine Callender, meet up with an inventor, Joseph Cavor, in 1899.
Support Struggle for Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFront In this 1901 classic, Wells's "first men in the moon" practice lunar locomotion, get lost in a moon jungle, and confront intelligent life in lunar ...
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