From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon  (1865)  by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor E. King

From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. The actual trip into space is covered in Around the Moon, the 1870 novel that Verne wrote following 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. — Excerpted from From the Earth to the Moon on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This etext has been provided by Project Gutenberg. The text is the first half of the etext From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It which is Project Gutenberg no. 83. This was one of the first Gutenberg etexts and was typed in by Richard Schroppel. It has been changed over the years by numerous anonymous editors attempting to change the orthography, units, etc. The quality of the book (and hence the etext) is low since it omits about 20% of the French original and makes numerous technical errors. The original book was published by Scribners (US) and Sampson Low (UK). The restored and edited version by N. Wolcott and C. Sánchez (Part II only) restores the missing parts of the Mercier-King translation (1873), and shows what is missing.

Table of Contents

• Chapter I: The Gun Club
• Chapter II: President Barbicane's Communication
• Chapter III: Effect of the President's Communication
• Chapter IV: Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge
• Chapter V: The Romance of the Moon
• Chapter VI: The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
• Chapter VII: The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball
• Chapter VIII: History of the Cannon
• Chapter IX: The Question of the Powders
• Chapter X: One Enemy V. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
• Chapter XI: Florida and Texas
• Chapter XII: Urbi et Orbi
• Chapter XIII: Stones Hill
• Chapter XIV: Pickaxe and Trowel
• Chapter XV: The Fete of the Casting
• Chapter XVI: The Columbiad
• Chapter XVII: A Telegraphic Dispatch
• Chapter XVIII: The Passenger of the Atlanta
• Chapter XIX: A Monster Meeting
• Chapter XX: Attack and Riposte
• Chapter XXI: How A Frenchman Manages An Affair
• Chapter XXII: The New Citizen of the United States
• Chapter XXIII: The Projectile-Vehicle
• Chapter XXIV: The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
• Chapter XXV: Final Details
• Chapter XXVI: Fire!
• Chapter XXVII: Foul Weather
• Chapter XXVIII: A New Star

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Original:	This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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