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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H. G. Wells, 1stworld Library

    Hardcover (1st World Library - Literary Society, Oct. 12, 2005)
    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.
  • The First Men In The Moon

    H. G. Wells

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 16, 2017)
    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. In 1866, (Herbert George) H.G. Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science.
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  • THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

    Herbert George Wells

    Paperback (Independently published, Dec. 28, 2016)
    The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". Summary: In 1899, a playwright named Bedford runs into an eccentric scientist named Cavor, who has been working on a metal alloy that will block gravity waves, and builds a spherical craft with shutters made of this material that can be open and shut, with the effect of making the craft alternately impervious and responsive to gravity. The two men pilot the craft to the moon, where they explore in the very thin atmosphere and much lighter gravitational conditions, but run afoul of some insect-like creatures who live below the surface, raise and eat giant "mooncalves" and vary a lot in their own shapes and capabilities. Gold and other valuable minerals are also in evidence, but taken prisoner, can the two men escape and return to Earth?
  • The First Men in the Moon

    Herbert George Wells

    Hardcover (BiblioLife, Aug. 18, 2008)
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H G Wells

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 2, 2014)
    This edition of HG Wells' classic best-seller is printed on high quality paper with an attractive, durable cover.
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H.G. Wells

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 6, 2014)
    Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Wells was truly before his time... The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites".
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H G Wells

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 22, 2014)
    Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne 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. I am young still in years, but the things that have happened to me have rubbed something of the youth from my mind. Whether they have brought any wisdom to light below it is a more doubtful matter.
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H.G. Wells

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, Jan. 1, 1963)
    Now a major motion picture in Dynamation and Lunacolor; a Charles H. Schneer Production; a Columbia Pictures Release; Ballantine U2232
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H. G. Wells

    Paperback (Phoenix Pick, May 20, 2008)
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  • First Men in the Moon

    H.G. Wells

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, Jan. 1, 1964)
    ...alone, cut off from the rest of mankind by vast distances of space, the first explorers from earth face the searing heat of Moon Day, the strange plants that poison the mind, weird, insect like Moon creatures, desperate battles in underground caverns lit by blue fire and throbbing to the roar of a civilization no man has ever seen...
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H. G. Wells

    Hardcover (Collins, Jan. 1, 1970)
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  • The First Men in the Moon

    H G (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Wells

    Hardcover (Wentworth Press, Aug. 26, 2016)
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