The First Men in the Moon

By Wells, H. G.

Book Id: WPLBN0000678437
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.5 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The First Men in the Moon
Author:	Wells, H. G.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: 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. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ?Here, at any rate,? said I, ?I shall find peace and a chance to work!?