The First Men in the Moon - Oxford World's Classics

'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface ... At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the 'most uneventful place in the world' the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr Cavor, and together they invade the moon. Dreaming respectively of scientific renown and of mineral wealth, they fashion a sphere from the gravity-defying substance Cavorite and go where no human has gone before. They expect a dead world, but instead they find lunar plants that grow in a single day, giant moon-calves and the ant-like Selenites, the super-adapted inhabitants of the Moon's utopian society. The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, and a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain and of utopian dreams of a wholly ordered and rational society.

ISBN:	9780198705048
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Published date:	12 Jan 2017
DEWEY:	823.912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxxiii, 181
Weight:	168g
Height:	130mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	14mm

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