A Voyage To The Moon

Author: Cyrano de Bergerac; Andrew Brown (Translator)

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ISBN : 9781847497994
Publisher : Alma Classics
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Publication date : 24 September 2019
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Author : Cyrano de Bergerac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Series : Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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Edition : 1909
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Language : English
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In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desired destination using the more scientific means of a rocket-powered craft. After landing, he discovers four-legged creatures whose nourishment is smoke and whose currency is poetry and encounters the ghost of Socrates.

Published posthumously and intended mainly as a satire of its age, this imaginative and entertaining tale - here presented in a lively translation by Andrew Brown - is now considered one of the pioneering works of science fiction.

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