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The first men in the moon

by H. G. Wells

A chance meeting between a struggling businessman and an eccentric scientist leads to a journey to the Moon inside a gravity-defying sphere, where they discover a complex, subterranean civilisation.

Accession 10320 ISBN — Publisher Fontana
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