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H.G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon
(Illustrated Edition)
e-artnow, 2022
Contact: info@e-artnow.org
EAN: 4066338119902
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“I was progressing in great leaps and bounds” Frontispiece.
“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
I
MR. BEDFORD MEETS MR. CAVOR AT LYMPNE
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As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. “Here, at any rate,” said I, “I shall find peace and a chance to work!”