The First Men in the Moon

Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by John Martin, Frederic Edwin Church and Caspar David Friedrich. A businessman and an eccentric scientist reach the moon in a sphere coated with a gravity-blocking metal, and find a civilisation under the crust where every citizen is bred for one task. Wells wrote the Selenites as an argument about the division of labor, and the return journey lea...