Earl John Russell Russell ~6 hr read

A journey to the Moon and a series of philosophical dialogues with posterity, the mind, and the spirits, an early-Victorian speculative miscellany.

Lord John Russell's 1836 collection (attributed to the future British Prime Minister) pairs an imaginary lunar voyage with essays and dialogues on truth, body and mind, and letters between the ages. A curious, cultivated pre-Victorian work at the crossroads of imaginative fiction and moral philosophy. Read it for a statesman's thoughtful fancy, when a trip to the Moon was an occasion for reflection.

In its time

Published in 1836, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).