![]() ![]() The two human cosmic voyagers, a politician and a scientist, represent the worst their professions have to offer both mankind and Selenite-kind, and the hapless end of the scientist Cavor at the hands of the moon people on the novel's last page is wonderful satire.". Wells' interest is sociological- to depict the insect-like society of the Selenites which is at once Utopian and thoroughly alien. "Although Wells describes the discovery of an anti-gravitational force, Cavorite, his journey to the moon has a completely different purpose from Verne's From the Earth to the Moon. 186 The Strand" ( now operating as WHSmith) to front endpaper that has faint crease line. On Earth, an investigation team finds the last of the Victorian crew, a now-aged Arnold Bedford and he tells them the story of how he and his girlfriend, Katherine Callender, meet up with an inventor, Joseph Cavor, in 1899. ![]() Small blind-embossed stamp of England's long-lived retailer "W.H. A very good copy with mild binding soil and general wear at extremities. ![]() Dark blue pictorial cloth, without rare dustwrapper. ![]()
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