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From the Earth to the Moon

Translated by Ward, Lock & Co.

After the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club decides to apply its engineering expertise to the design of a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the Moon.

First published
1867
Length
51,044 words
Reading time
About 3 hr 33 min
Language
English (US)

About the book

In search of an occupation after the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club undertakes the design and construction of a cannon capable of launching a projectile to the Moon. The three main protagonists—Impey Barbicane, president of the Gun Club, Captain Nicholl, Barbicane’s rival and then collaborator, and Michel Ardan, a French scientist—board the hollow cannonball en route to the Moon. The story concludes in Autour de la Lune , the sequel published four years later.

De la Terre à la Lune , number 4 in the Voyages Extraordinaires collection, is one of Jules Verne’s best-known novels. It inspired numerous adaptations, from movies to theme parks to video games.

the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 51,044 words arranged in 28 navigable sections.

The source metadata identifies Translator: Ward, Lock & Co..

About the author

Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828–1905) is described by Wikidata as French writer (1828–1905), with citizenship or national association recorded as France.

Recorded occupations include novelist, playwright, poet, children's writer, writer, and science fiction writer. Languages recorded for Jules Verne include French and Esperanto. Wikidata lists Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, and Michael Strogoff among Jules Verne's notable works. Open Library identifies Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 11510 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in a Balloon, From the Earth to the Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mysterious Island under Jules Verne's authorship.

Contributors

Translator

Ward, Lock & Co.

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Themes and ideas

  • Science fiction, French - Translations into English
  • Engineering mathematics

Table of contents

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  1. The Gun Club
  2. President Barbicane’s Communication
  3. Effect of President Barbicane’s Communication
  4. Answer from the Cambridge Observatory
  5. The Romance of the Moon
  6. What It Is Impossible to Ignore and What Is No Longer Allowed to Be Believed in the United States
  7. The Hymn of the Cannonball
  8. History of the Cannon
  9. The Question of Powders
  10. One Enemy Against Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
  11. Florida and Texas
  12. “Urbi et Orbi”
  13. Stony Hill
  14. Pickaxe and Trowel
  15. The Ceremony of the Casting
  16. The Columbiad
  17. A Telegram
  18. The Passenger of the Atlanta
  19. A Meeting
  20. Thrust and Parry
  21. How a Frenchman Settles an Affair
  22. The New Citizen of the United States
  23. The Projectile Compartment
  24. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
  25. Final Details
  26. Fire!
  27. Cloudy Weather
  28. A New Star