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From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

by Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. (Summary from Wikipedia)


Ch. 16 The Columbiad and Ch. 17 A Telegraphic Dispatch

Ch. 18 The Passenger of the Atlanta

Ch. 19 A Monster Meeting

Ch. 20 Attack and Riposte

Ch. 21 How A Frenchman Manages An Affair

Ch. 22 The New Citizen of the United States

Ch. 23 The Projectile-Vehicle

Ch. 24 The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains

Ch. 25 Final Details

Ch. 26 Fire!

Ch. 27 Foul Weather

Ch. 28 A New Star

Effect of the President's Communication

Florida and Texas

History of the Cannon

One Enemy V. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends

Pickaxe and Trowel

President Barbicane's Communication

Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge

Stones Hill

The Fete of the Casting

The Gun Club

The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball

The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States

The Question of the Powders

The Romance of the Moon

Urbi et Orbi