The First Men in the Moon (1901)
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THE FIRST MEN IN
THE MOON
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"I was progressing in great leaps and bounds"
Frontispiece.
The First Men
in the Moon
By
H. G. Wells
Author of "Tales of Space and Time,"
"Love and Mr. Lewisham,"
and "Anticipations"
"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."—Lucian's Icaromenippus
London
George Newnes, Limited
Southampton Street, Strand
1901
CONTENTS
PAGE I. 1 II. 28 III. 41 IV. 54 V. 61 VI. 70 VII. 77 VIII. 85 IX. 92 X. 107 XI. 115 XII. 132 XIII. 140 XIV. 152 XV. 161 XVI. 178 XVII. 191 XVIII. 207 XIX. 221 XX. 238 XXI. 249 XXII. 271 XXIII. 277 XXIV. 289 XXV. 316 XXVI. 340
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| "I was progressing in great Leaps and Bounds" | Frontispiece | ||
| "He gesticulated with his Hands and Arms" . | To face page | 6 | |
| "I looked back at his receding Figure" | „ | „ | 11 |
| "I sat across the Edge of the Manhole and looked down into the Black Interior" | „ | „ | 54 |
| "We watched intensely" | „ | „ | 87 |
| "I realised my Leap had been too Violent" | „ | „ | 101 |
| "Insects," murmured Cavor, "Insects" | „ | „ | 130 |
| "There the Thing was, looking at Us" | „ | „ | 137 |
| "Bedford," he whispered, "there's a sort of Light in front of Us" | „ | „ | 177 |
| "The nearer I struggled, the more awfully remote it seemed" | „ | „ | 236 |
| "They carried Him into Darkness" | „ | „ | 292 |
| The Grand Lunar | „ | „ | 322 |
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