A. de Ville D'Avray 15 min read

A whimsical album of the journey to the Moon 'before 1900', fanciful pictures and fancies of lunar travel, composed page by page on long winter evenings for the author's children.

A. de Ville d'Avray's 1900 book is a playful illustrated fantasy of a voyage to the Moon. Charming, genial, of its era. Read it for a delightful turn-of-the-century French album of moon-travel whimsy, made purely to amuse children, a warm, imaginative artifact of the era's fascination with lunar voyages, in the spirit of Verne and Méliès, here in the original French.

In its time

Published in 1900, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

15 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).