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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