CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I MR. BEDFORD MEETS MR. CAVOR AT LYMPNE

II THE FIRST MAKING OF CAVORITE

III THE BUILDING OF THE SPHERE

IV INSIDE THE SPHERE

V THE JOURNEY TO THE MOON

VI THE LANDING ON THE MOON

VII SUNRISE ON THE MOON

VIII A LUNAR MORNING

IX PROSPECTING BEGINS

X LOST MEN IN THE MOON

XI THE MOONCALF PASTURES

XII THE SELENITE'S FACE

XIII MR. CAVOR MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS

XIV EXPERIMENTS IN INTERCOURSE

XV THE GIDDY BRIDGE

XVI POINTS OF VIEW

XVII THE FIGHT IN THE CAVE OF THE MOON BUTCHERS

XVIII IN THE SUNLIGHT

XIX MR. BEDFORD ALONE

XX MR. BEDFORD IN INFINITE SPACE

XXI MR. BEDFORD AT LITTLESTONE

XXII THE ASTONISHING COMMUNICATION OF MR. JULIUS WENDIGEE

XXIII AN ABSTRACT OF THE SIX MESSAGES FIRST RECEIVED FROM MR. CAVOR

XXIV THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SELENITES

XXV THE GRAND LUNAR

XXVI THE LAST MESSAGE CAVOR SENT TO THE EARTH

Transcriber's Notes:

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

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