This is one of the most stirring and exciting of Jules Verne's famous and popular stories. Three adventurers take passage for the moon in a hollow, conical shell, weighing 20,000 lbs., and projected from a cannon 900 feet long by the explosion of 400,000 lbs. of gun-cotton. The tremendous results of this explosion; the rush through space of the shell and its passengers; the extent to which they were able to conquer the laws of gravitation, and the results of their extraordinary exploit, make up as thrilling a series of adventures as the fancy of this very imaginative French author is capable of painting. Numerous facts in philosophy, astronomy, and other sciences, are woven into the story, which is spiced with not a little good-humored satire upon American peculiarities, for the scene of the narrative is laid to a great extent in the United States.
Sent post-paid on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.,
654 Broadway, New York.
"Infinite Riches in a Little Room."—Marlowe.
THE BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES.
Personal reminiscences of famous poets, novelists, wits and humorists, artists, actors, musicians, and the like.
Edited by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD.
NOW READY THE INITIAL VOLUME:
Personal Reminiscences,
CHORLEY, PLANCHE, and YOUNG.