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The First Men in the Moon

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141441085

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 191g

  • RRP: £8.99

The First Men in the Moon

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141441085

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 191g

  • RRP: £8.99

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H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

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