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Fiction · 1865

From the Earth to the Moon

And, Round the Moon

Jules Verne

Reading time
about 6.5 h
Length
91,168 words · 216 pages
Structure
51 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Chapter I — The Gun Club
  2. Chapter II — President Barbicane’s Communication
  3. Chapter III — Effect of the President’s Communication
  4. Chapter IV — Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge
  5. Chapter V — The Romance of the Moon
  6. Chapter VI — Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
  7. Chapter VII — The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball
  8. Chapter VIII — History of the Cannon
  9. Chapter IX — The Question of the Powders
  10. Chapter X — One Enemy V. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
  11. Chapter XI — Florida and Texas
  12. Chapter XII — Urbi Et Orbi
  13. Chapter XIII — Stones Hill
  14. Chapter XIV — Pickaxe and Trowel
  15. Chapter XV — The Fete of the Casting
  16. Chapter XVI — The Columbiad
  17. Chapter XVII — A Telegraphic Dispatch
  18. Chapter XVIII — The Passenger of the Atlanta
  19. Chapter XIX — A Monster Meeting
  20. Chapter XX — Attack and Riposte
  21. Chapter XXI — How a Frenchman Manages an Affair
  22. Chapter XXII — The New Citizen of the United States
  23. Chapter XXIII — The Projectile-Vehicle
  24. Chapter XXIV — The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
  25. Chapter XXV — Final Details
  26. Chapter XXVI — Fire!
  27. Chapter XXVII — Foul Weather
  28. Chapter XXVIII — A New Star
  29. Chapter I — Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P. M
  30. Chapter II — The First Half-Hour
  31. Chapter III — Their Place of Shelter
  32. Chapter IV — A Little Algebra
  33. Chapter V — The Cold of Space
  34. Chapter VI — Question and Answer
  35. Chapter VII — A Moment of Intoxication
  36. Chapter VIII — At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues
  37. Chapter IX — The Consequences of a Deviation
  38. Chapter X — The Observers of the Moon
  39. Chapter XI — Fancy and Reality
  40. Chapter XII — Orographic Details
  41. Chapter XIII — Lunar Landscapes
  42. Chapter XIV — The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and a Half
  43. Chapter XV — Hyperbola or Parabola
  44. Chapter XVI — The Southern Hemisphere
  45. Chapter XVII — Tycho
  46. Chapter XVIII — Grave Questions
  47. Chapter XIX — A Struggle Against the Impossible
  48. Chapter XX — The Soundings of the Susquehanna
  49. Chapter XXI — J. T. Maston Recalled
  50. Chapter XXII — Recovered from the Sea
  51. Chapter XXIII — The End

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Jules Verne

1828–1905 · Victorian

Jules Verne (1828–1905) was born at Nantes and sent to Paris to study law, which he gave up for the theatre and then for fiction. With the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel he began the Voyages extraordinaires, the series of some sixty novels that included Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). He settled at Amiens, and is among the most translated of all authors.

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