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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I.	MR. BEDFORD MEETS MR. CAVOR AT LYMPNE	[1]
II.	THE FIRST MAKING OF CAVORITE	[28]
III.	THE BUILDING OF THE SPHERE	[41]
IV.	INSIDE THE SPHERE	[54]
V.	THE JOURNEY TO THE MOON	[61]
VI.	THE LANDING ON THE MOON	[70]
VII.	SUNRISE ON THE MOON	[77]
VIII.	A LUNAR MORNING	[85]
IX.	PROSPECTING BEGINS	[92]
X.	LOST MEN IN THE MOON	[107]
XI.	THE MOONCALF PASTURES	[115]
XII.	THE SELENITE’S FACE	[132]
XIII.	MR. CAVOR MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS	[140]
XIV.	EXPERIMENTS IN INTERCOURSE	[152]
XV.	THE GIDDY BRIDGE	[161]
XVI.	POINTS OF VIEW	[178]
XVII.	THE FIGHT IN THE CAVE OF THE MOON BUTCHERS	[191]
XVIII.	IN THE SUNLIGHT	[207]
XIX.	MR. BEDFORD ALONE	[221]
XX.	MR. BEDFORD IN INFINITE SPACE	[238]
XXI.	MR. BEDFORD AT LITTLESTONE	[249]
XXII.	THE ASTONISHING COMMUNICATION OF MR. JULIUS WENDIGEE	[271]
XXIII.	AN ABSTRACT OF THE SIX MESSAGES FIRST RECEIVED FROM MR. CAVOR	[277]
XXIV.	THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SELENITES	[289]
XXV.	THE GRAND LUNAR	[316]
XXVI.	THE LAST MESSAGE CAVOR SENT TO THE EARTH	[340]