LoginThe First Men in the Moon (Oxford World's Classics)
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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 an
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 12 January 2017
ISBN-10 : 0198705042 | ISBN-13: 9780198705048
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Release date: 12 January 2017
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