The First Men in the Moon
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2016
256 pages
978-0-19-101507-6 (ISBN)
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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 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.
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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.
Content
- Cover
- THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
- COPYRIGHT
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- H. G. Wells's Fantastic Science
- Composition, Publication, and Reception
- Later Reception and Adaptation
- H. G. Wells, Fantastic Transport, and the Moon
- The Idea of a Planned World: Life on the Moon
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Works by H. G. Wells
- Studies
- Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics
- A chronology of H. G. Wells
- THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
- CONTENTS
- Chapter I: Mr Bedford Meets Mr Cavor at Lympne *
- Chapter II: The First Making of Cavorite
- Chapter III: The Building of the Sphere
- Chapter IV: Inside the Sphere
- Chapter V : The Journey to the Moon
- Chapter VI: The Landing on the Moon
- Chapter VII: Sunrise on the Moon
- Chapter VIII: A Lunar Morning
- Chapter IX: Prospecting Begins
- Chapter X: Lost Men in the Moon
- Chapter XI: The Mooncalf Pastures
- Chapter XII: The Selenite's Face
- Chapter XIII: Mr Cavor Makes Some Suggestions
- Chapter XIV: Experiments in Intercourse
- Chapter XV: The Giddy Bridge
- Chapter XVI: Points of View
- Chapter XVII: The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers
- Chapter XVIII: In the Sunlight
- Chapter XIX: Mr Bedford Alone
- Chapter XX: Mr bedford in infinite space *
- Chapter XXI: Mr Bedford at Littlestone
- Chapter XXII: The Astonishing Communication of Mr Julius Wendigee
- Chapter XXIII: An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received From Mr Cavor
- Chapter XXIV: The Natural History of the Selenites
- Chapter XXV: The Grand Lunar
- Chapter XXVI: The Last Message Cavor Sent to the Earth
- EXPLANATORY NOTES
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