The First Men in the Moon
by H. G. Wells
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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 absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.
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Classic Literature, Fiction, Imperialism, Moon, Science fiction, Space flight to the moon, Translations into Russian, Utopias, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, action & adventure, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Satire, English literature, Fiction, general, Action & Adventure, General, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Interplanetary voyages, Space flight to the moon -- Fiction, Imperialism -- FictionShowing 8 featured editions. View all 114 editions?
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"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2017"--t.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and chronology.
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