The First Men in the Moon

A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

• Author(s): Herbert George Wells,
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Pages: 321
• ISBN_10: 0786404116
  ISBN_13: 9780786404117
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Classics , Fiction / Literary , Fiction / Science Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy ,

Description:... The First Men in the Moon is the last in a series of "scientific romances" begun by Wells with The Time Machine. In the opinion of many, it is also the last in a series of pessimistic and anti-utopian novels before Wells took up the tone of an optimistic and utopian social prophet with Anticipations. The present critical edition of First Men questions that opinion. The lunar utopia described is far from a satire on the industrial order as many critics claim, but in historical context is instead related to the international scientific management movement, stemming from the Saint-Simonian school of socialism. This critical edition shows how First Men consciously builds on the whole literary tradition of moon voyages.