The First Men in the Moon (Q1218232)

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novel by H. G. Wells
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The First Men in the Moon
novel by H. G. Wells

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    Wells - The First Men in the Moon, 1901.djvu
    1,838 × 3,094, 380 pages; 15.24 MB
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    1901
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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. (English)
    For my own part a vivid dream has come to my help, and I see, almost as plainly as though I had seen it in actual fact, a blue-lit shadowy dishevelled Cavor struggling in the grip of these insect Selenites, struggling ever more desperately and hopelessly as they press upon him, shouting, expostulating, perhaps even at last fighting, and being forced backwards step by step out of all speech or sign of his fellows, for evermore into the Unknown—into the dark, into that silence that has no end.... (English)
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