Penguin The First Men in the Moon

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor succeeds, and the invention makes possible humanity’s oldest dream: a journey to the moon. Motivated by money and knowledge, the two embark on the expedition, but find a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever. The tale unfolds across a 256-page reprint edition in paperback from Penguin Classics.

This edition presents the classic science-fiction adventure as a concise, immersive narrative of discovery and peril, rooted in the collaboration—and tension—between two very different men.

Features

• Penniless Bedford meets Dr Cavor on the Kent coast
• Gravity-blocking material enables a lunar journey
• Expedition reveals a harsh, alien world
• Themes of money versus knowledge in exploration
• 256 pagina’s
• Penguin Classics paperback, reprint edition