The First Men in the Moon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421809366)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. "Here, at any rate," said I, "I shall find peace and a chance to work " And this book is the sequel. So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men. I may perhaps mention here that very recently I had come an ugly cropper in certain business enterprises. Sitting now surrounded by all the circumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my extremity. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disasters were conceivably of my own making. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity, but the conduct of business operations is not among these. But in those days I was young, and my youth among other objectionable forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs.

Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN-10: 1421809362
ISBN-13: 9781421809366
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2005
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

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