[Oxford World’s Classics] Journey to the Moon – Jules Verne (ISBN: 9780198941781)

Description

Paperback

Published: 14 August 2025

400 Pages

196x129mm

ISBN: 9780198941781

‘How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?’

Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of

From the Earth to the Moon

and

Around the Moon

tell the daring story of the

Journey to the Moon

aboard an American projectile blown into the skies by gunpowder. A powerfully innovative tale, it introduces such paradigm revolutions as escape velocity, weightlessness, “slingshot trajectories,” and ocean splashdowns. Through its inimitable blend of science, humour, and verbal brilliance, it has fired generations of writers and astronauts into the space age.

This new edition, translated, annotated, and presented by David Coward and William Butcher, is the only one to appear as the author wished. It contains a wealth of discoveries, including Verne’s sources and ideological and stylistic disagreements with his publisher.

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