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From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
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Summary

 The War of the Rebellion is over, and the members of the American Gun Club, bored with inactivity, look around for a new project. At last they have it: "We will build the greatest projectile the world has ever seen and make the moon our 38th state!"

When From the Earth to the Moon was published in 1865, it was regarded as pure fantasy. Who could imagine a rocket that would carry men and animals through space? Today, like so many of Jules Verne's prophecies, space travel is a reality. Here's a fun adventure story that shows how Verne, with foresight that is at times almost eerily accurate, envisioned a trip to the moon.

(P)1999 Blackstone Audio Inc Action & Adventure Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Adventure
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It was a classic I wanted to tick off my list and it was a good time listening to it. I would recommend for sure.

A Classic for sure

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Nearly as good as Around the World story. Narration was excellent. I don’t know if the style of speed is really from that period but accepting as such, very well done.

Very enjoyable story. Excellent narration

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Frenchman sounds Indian…. The rest sound the same. If’s not dramatised then just stick to reading.

Great story ahead of its time

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I've read From the Earth to the Moon before so the story is fine. Like all Verne this is an epic with a lot of scientific sidelines, which I like. But the narrator was so monotonous to my ears that I had to give up half way through. I felt there was little change to his rate of speech, no distinction between characters and not enough pause between sentences. Leading to the feeling of one run-on sentence. Not for me, I'll find another recording.

I like Verne, but the performance was hard going

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First time listening or reading this but have seen the film they are nothing alike like the rest of his books
I love science fiction but thus is pushing it to far to build a Canon that will fly 3 men and 2 dogs to the moon wow
There is a noise in the back ground sounds like the reader is playing pong if any of you remember the computer game from my younger days

not like the film

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