...e Moon by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...aracter he might serve a useful purpose in the development of my plot. The third day he called upon me. For a time I was puzzled to think what had bro... ...ooked about him. “This is no world for men,” he said. “And yet in a way—it appeals.” He became silent for a time, then commenced his medita- tive humm... ...gan to crawl through the lower jungle, making, so far as we could judge, a circuit, halting now at every waving fun- gus, at every sound, intent only ... ...ators and searchers and servants, and all the distinguished insects of the court of the moon. Still lower stood ushers and messen- gers, and then all ... ... libraries of books. I explained to him how our science was growing by the united labours of innumerable little men, and on that he made no comment sa... ...him. At first he thought we referred merely to administrative areas. “‘Our States and Empires are still the rawest sketches of what order will some da...

...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest a...

...he Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...n with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years... ...war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have b... ... into a negligent and incredulous world. But before he had made his second circuit of the Crystal Palace towers, Fame was lifting her trumpet, she dre... ...hem turned out well. The first strayed off into the infinite, heed- ing no appeals; the second was killed in the night by a fruit motor-waggon which f... ... night by a fruit motor-waggon which fled before Grubb could get down; the third got itself entangled in the front wheel of a passing cy- clist, who c... ... all that occurred in that central place. The 127 H G Wells City Hall and Court House, the Post-Office and a mass of buildings on the west side of Br...

Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.