The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon - Paperback

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The First Men in the Moon - Paperback

The First Men in the Moon - Paperback

by H. G. Wells
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780198705048
Author H. G. Wells
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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H. G. WELLS (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer in many genres, prominent in his time as a socialist and a pacifist as well as a pioneer of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, among other novels.

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