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The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 182 pages

The First Men in the Moon is an early science-fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It follows two men who travel to the Moon in a sphere powered by an anti-gravity substance and discover a strange underground world. It is worth listening for its imaginative adventure and vivid speculation.

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Opening of the book

“Three thousand stadia from the earth to the moon.   … Marvel not, my comrade, if I appear talking to you on super-terrestrial and aerial topics.

The long and the short of the matter is that I am running over the order of a Journey I have lately made.”

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Contents

  1. Epigraph
  2. Endnotes

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