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Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Barbicane: The President of the Gun Club.
- Tom Hunter: Add a description of this character.
- J. T. Maston
- Major Elphinstone
- Blomsberry
- Diana
- Herschel
- Bronsfield
- Murchison
- Joseph T. Maston
- Michel Ardan
- Nicholl
First Sentence edit
During the Federal war in the United States a new and very influential club was established in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.
Table of Contents edit
I. The Gun Club
II. President Barbicane's Communication
III. Effect of President Barbicane's Communication
V. The Romance of the Moon
VI. What It Is Impossible to Ignore and What Is No Longer Allowed to Be Believed in the United States
VII. The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball
VIII. History of the Cannon
IX. The Question of Powders
X. One Enemy against Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
XI. Florida and Texas
XII. "Urbi et Orb!"
XIII. Stony Hill
XIV. Pickaxe and Trowel
XV. The Ceremony of the Casting
XVI. The Columbiad
XVII. A Telegram
XVIII. The Passenger of the Atlanta
XIX. A Meeting
XX. Thrust and Parry
XXI. How a Frenchman Settles an Affair
XXII. The New Citizen of the United States
XXIII. The Projectile Compartment
XXIV. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
XXV. Final Details
XXVI. Fire
XXVII. Cloudy Weather
XXVIII. A New Star
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Halcyon Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 4 of 53 in Voyages Extraordinaires. (universe)
Preceded by A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and followed by In Search of the Castaways.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jules Verne (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: French
Publisher: Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Country: France
Publication Date: 1865
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 188
Publisher: Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Country: France
Publication Date: 1865
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 188
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