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From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne · English text · 40,985 words

Members of Baltimore’s Gun Club turn from artillery to an audacious plan: launch a projectile toward the Moon. The project brings engineering, public spectacle, money, and human ambition into one increasingly elaborate experiment.

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Background

Verne mixes popular science, satire, and adventure. The novel’s calculations reflect nineteenth-century enthusiasm for technological progress, while the Gun Club’s confidence invites readers to enjoy the distance between theory and reality.

Reading notes

  • Separate the characters’ scientific claims from their comic certainty.
  • Keep track of the changing plan and the practical constraints it faces.
  • Notice how public attention becomes part of the expedition.

Version note

Prepared from the English text supplied in the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press bilingual anthology. The site owner confirmed publication permission for this source edition on 21 October 2026. Publisher and edition details remain recorded in the rights audit.