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THE FIRST MEN IN
THE MOON

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"I was progressing in great leaps and bounds"

⁠Frontispiece.

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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

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CONTENTS


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  3. II.
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  4. III.
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  5. IV.
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  6. V.
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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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