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The First Men in the Moon
章节(27)
- Epigraph 0:00
- I: Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne 0:22
- II: The First Making of Cavorite 36:04
- III: The Building of the Sphere 53:16
- IV: Inside the Sphere 1:09:57
- V: The Journey to the Moon 1:18:12
- VI: The Landing on the Moon 1:30:26
- VII: Sunrise on the Moon 1:39:18
- VIII: A Lunar Morning 1:50:20
- IX: Prospecting Begins 1:59:15
- X: Lost Men in the Moon 2:19:00
- XI: The Mooncalf Pastures 2:30:40
- XII: The Selenite’s Face 2:53:41
- XIII: Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions 3:03:09
- XIV: Experiments in Intercourse 3:18:00
- XV: The Giddy Bridge 3:29:30
- XVI: Points of View 3:52:00
- XVII: The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers 4:07:52
- XVIII: In the Sunlight 4:29:37
- XIX: Mr. Bedford Alone 4:48:09
- XX: Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space 5:12:17
- XXI: Mr. Bedford at Littlestone 5:27:58
- XXII: The Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius Wendigee 5:58:20
- XXIII: An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor 6:06:07
- XXIV: The Natural History of the Selenites 6:22:11
- XXV: The Grand Lunar 6:59:55
- XXVI: The Last Message Cavor Sent to the Earth 7:32:38
Mr. Bedford, an aspiring playwright, moves to the British countryside in hope of writing a successful play that will cure his financial troubles. There, he becomes acquainted with Mr. Cavor, an eccentric and reclusive scientist, who hopes to create an anti-gravitational material.
After the two men accidentally create the material, they decide to use it to land on the Moon—Cavor motivated by expanding the realms of knowledge, and Bedford by the prospective mining of lunar minerals. There they meet an intelligent civilization of arthropoids whom they name the “Selenites.”
First serialized between November 1900 and June 1901, the novel was published in a single volume the same year. By contrasting Selenite society with the society of Victorian England, Wells criticizes Victorian mores and professes eugenic and socialist ideas.