Around the Moon ( French Autour de la Lune ) is a science fiction novel by the French writer Jules Verne . First published in 1869 in Journal des débats . Continues the story of the flight to the moon, begun in the novel " From the Earth to the Moon " ( 1865 ). The adventures of three travelers (Impi Barbicane, Captain Nicole and Michel Ardan), circled the moon in a shell that was shot from a huge cannon, are described.
| Around the moon | |
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| fr. Autour de la lune | |
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| Genre | adventure novel |
| Author | Jules Verne |
| Original language | French |
| Date of writing | |
| Date of first publication | 1869 |
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Content
History of Creation and Translations
The novel was published from November 4 to December 8, 1869 in the journal Journal des débats [1] . The novel went out of print by the book Etzel on January 13, 1870. September 16, 1872 a novel was published with illustrations by Alfonso de Neuville and Émile Bayard [2] .
In Russian, the novel first appeared in 1873 in the translation of Marco Vovchok . It was reprinted in 1992 [3] . There is also a version of a modern translation by L. Yu. Korneeva [4] .
Story
After the shot, the shell along with three passengers begins a five-day journey to the moon. A few minutes after the start of the flight a few hundred yards from them passes a small bright meteor , but fortunately, does not collide with the projectile. Meteor due to the force of gravity of the Earth became its second moon. As it turns out later, the gravitational force of this satellite made the shell deviate from its course, sending it into orbit around the moon. As they approach their goal, the heroes begin geographical observations with binoculars.
Soon, the projectile hits the night side of the moon and plunges into the cold. Further in the southern hemisphere, the heroes watch the magnificent volcanoes and valleys. Travelers conclude that now the moon is uninhabited, but before it was inhabited by creatures, possibly similar to humans. Later, the projectile begins to move slowly away from the moon, to the “dead point” (the place where the gravitational attraction of the moon and the earth are equal). The projectile begins to fall to Earth from a distance of 160,000 miles, and it must collide with the Earth at a speed equal to that which was noted when leaving the cannon.
Four days later, the crew of the US Navy noticed a meteor falling from the sky into the sea. This meteor is the same shell. He surfaced after a fall, and after a few days of searching, the heroes were saved.
See also
- “ From the Earth to the Moon ”
- Herbert Wells “ The First Humans on the Moon ” (1901)
Notes
- ↑ Autour de la Lune (Fr.) // Journal des Débats. - 1869. - 4 novembre.
- ↑ The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: I. Voyages Extraordinaires . jv.gilead.org.il. Date of treatment March 14, 2018.
- ↑ Around the Moon // Science Fiction Laboratory.
- ↑ Jules Verne. Around the moon / per. L. Korneeva. - M .: Genres, Astrel, 2012 .-- 208 p. - ISBN 978-5-271-41046-8 .