A Voyage to the Moon E-Book

Cyrano De Bergerac

• Herausgeber: Enrico Conti
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Avinien de Cyrano De Bergerac (1619 – 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the seventeenth century. Today he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most noted drama Cyrano De Bergerac which, although it includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth.Cyrano De Bergerac is considered to be the forerunner of the fantastical literary genre and his stories offer the reader futuristic scenarios, twists and suspenseful plots.

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A Voyage to the Moon

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac.

Note on the Translation.

The Translator to the Reader.

Of how the Voyage was Conceived.

Of how the Author set out, and where he first arrived.

Of his Conversation with the Vice–Roy of New France; and of the system of this Universe.

Of how at last he set out again for the Moon, tho without his own Will.

Of his Arrival there, and of the Beauty of that Country in which he fell.

Of a Youth whom he met there, and of their Conversation: what that country was, and the Inhabitants of it.

Being cast out from that Country, of the new Adventures which Befell him; and of the Demon of Socrates.

Of the Languages of the People in the Moon; of the Manner of Feeding there, and Paying the Scot; and of how the Author was taken to Court.

Of the little Spaniard whom he met there, and of his quaint Wit; of Vacuum, Specific Weights, and sun-dry other Philosophical Matters.

Where the Author comes in doubt, whether he be a Man, an Ape, or an Estridge; and of the Opinion of the Lunar Philosophers concerning Aris-totle.

Of the Manner of making War in the Moon; and of how the Moon is not the Moon, nor the Earth the Earth.

Of a Philosophical Entertainment.

Of the little Animals that make up our Life, and likewise cause our Diseases; and of the Disposition of the Towns in the Moon.

Of the Original of All Things; of Atomes; and of the Operation of the Senses.

Of the Books in the Moon, and their Fashion; of Death, Burial, and Burning; of the Manner of telling the Time; and of Noses,