Jules Verne 4 hr 21 min read

Fired from a giant cannon, three travelers circle the Moon and fight to survive the return, Verne's soaring sequel, in the original French.

This is Jules Verne's 1870 'Autour de la Lune,' the continuation of his great lunar cannon-shot, following the projectile and its passengers as they loop the Moon, survey its landscapes, and face the peril of coming home. A crowning work of nineteenth-century scientific romance, richly illustrated by Bayard and De Neuville. Read it for the classic moon-voyage in Verne's own language, science and adventure in perfect balance.

In its time

Published in 1870, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 21 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Émile Antoine Bayard