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Around the Moon

Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune, 1869), also translated as Circling the Moon and All Around the Moon, is the sequel to Jules Verne's 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. It is a science fiction tale which continues the trip to the Moon that was only begun in the first novel. Later English editions sometimes combined the two under the title From the Earth to the Moon and Around It.

Author

Jules Verne

Autour de la Lune

Louis Mercier & Eleanor E. King (1873); Edward Roth (1874); Thomas H. Linklater (1877); I. O. Evans (1959), Jacqueline and Robert Baldick (1970), Harold Salemson (1970)

Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse-Marie de Neuville

French

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Science fiction novel

Pierre-Jules Hetzel

1870

France

1873

Print (Hardback)

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Around the Moon at Wikisource

From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon served as the basis for the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon.

Moon in fiction

Kytasaari, Dennis (13 July 2006). . Archived from the original on 18 August 2006. Retrieved August 27, 2006.

"The Works of Jules Verne"

at Standard Ebooks

Round the Moon

at Project Gutenberg — This is the original translation of Mercier and King published by Sampson Low et al. in 1873 and deletes about 20% of the original French text, along with numerous other errors.

From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon

— This is the original translation of Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor E. King published by Sampson Low et al. in 1873, revised and reconstituted by Christian Sánchez and Norman Wolcott. The parts Mercier and King left out are shown in red type.

Round the Moon

— This the version of both parts of Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon as published by Ward Lock in London in 1877. The translation is more complete than the Mercier version, but still has flaws, referring to the space capsule as a "bullet".

Project Gutenberg's The Moon Voyage

— This is the translation of Edward Roth first published in 1876 by King and Baird, Philadelphia. This translation has been vilified by Verne scholars for the large amount of additional non-Verne material included. However the book does contain the first printed corrected equation of motion for Moon travel and also the first correct printed derivation of the formula for the escape velocity for a space capsule to leave the Earth for the Moon.

Project Gutenberg's All Around the Moon

from the 1874 edition, from the Smithsonian Institution

Gallery of images

public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Round the Moon

Autour de la lune, audio version (in French)