From the earth to the moon: illustrated

From the Earth to the Moon is an anticipation novel by Jules Verne, published in 1865. It relates how, after the end of the Civil War, an association of artillerymen and scientists linked to the military industry tried to send a shell inhabited by three men to the Moon. From the Earth to the Moon forms the first part of a diptych, which ends with Around the Moon, published four years later. Several characters from these novels are re-staged in Sans dessus dessous, published twenty years later, without much success, then rediscovered in 1975.

The work is one of Jules Verne's best-known novels. It has become a reference in the field of science fiction, with many heirs such as H. G. Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon, in 1901. The novel has been adapted many times on the screen, for cinema and television, as early as 1902 with Georges Méliès and his Journey to the Moon.