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Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

Por: Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Series Broadway translationsEditor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2024Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • computer
Tipo de soporte:
  • online resource
Títulos uniformes:
  • L'autre monde. English
Tema(s): Clasificación LoC:
  • PQ
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Contenidos:
Introduction: The legend of Cyrano. The life of Cyrano. Cyrano's friends. The libertin question. The works of Cyrano -- Voyage to the moon -- Voyage to the sun -- Appendices: Extracts from Godwin, D'Urfey, and Swift. Bibliography. Genealogy. Coat of arms.
Créditos de producción:
  • Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Resumen: "Voyages to the Moon and the Sun" by Cyrano de Bergerac is a satirical novel published posthumously in 1657. The narrator, also named Cyrano, attempts multiple flights to reach the Moon and discover its civilization. After crashing in New France and surviving a rocket-powered launch, he encounters four-legged inhabitants who communicate in musical notes, value large noses, and include the ghost of Socrates. Through philosophical dialogues, the travelers challenge fundamental beliefs about God, immortality, and the human soul. Considered one of the earliest science fiction stories, it features the first description of rocket-powered spaceflight. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comical_History_of_the_States_and_Empires_of_the_Moon

Release date is 2024-07-10

Introduction: The legend of Cyrano. The life of Cyrano. Cyrano's friends. The libertin question. The works of Cyrano -- Voyage to the moon -- Voyage to the sun -- Appendices: Extracts from Godwin, D'Urfey, and Swift. Bibliography. Genealogy. Coat of arms.

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

"Voyages to the Moon and the Sun" by Cyrano de Bergerac is a satirical novel published posthumously in 1657. The narrator, also named Cyrano, attempts multiple flights to reach the Moon and discover its civilization. After crashing in New France and surviving a rocket-powered launch, he encounters four-legged inhabitants who communicate in musical notes, value large noses, and include the ghost of Socrates. Through philosophical dialogues, the travelers challenge fundamental beliefs about God, immortality, and the human soul. Considered one of the earliest science fiction stories, it features the first description of rocket-powered spaceflight. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1923

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