The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G.

The First Men in the Moon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198705048)

Vendor: H. G. Wells
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Format: Paperback
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The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G.

The First Men in the Moon

$14.95
The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G.

The First Men in the Moon

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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 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.

Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN-10: 0198705042
ISBN-13: 9780198705048
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.7
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 76094 / First Men in the Moon
By H. G. Wells
By H. G. Wells
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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.

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