The penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to a coast in Kent in order to write, undisturbed, a play on which he has placed all his hopes for resolving his financial difficulties.
There he accidentally meets Dr. Cavor, an eccentric but brilliant scientist who is conducting experiments on a substance designed to neutralise gravity.
Very soon, Cavor achieves his goal and informs Bedford that his invention has made one of humanity’s oldest dreams possible: a journey to the Moon.
Driven respectively by the pursuit of wealth and the thirst for knowledge, the two men set out together on this daring voyage. However, neither of them is prepared for what awaits them there, where they may end up stranded forever.
A classic work of science fiction written at the end of the Victorian era by master of the genre H. G. Wells, at a time when space travel to the Moon was still nothing more than a human wish.
Wells builds on the idea of lunar conquest as one of his characteristic “thought experiments,” creating a thrilling adventure full of surprises, humour, and symbolism.
