From the earth to the moon ; and, Round the moon / Jules Verne. [print]

Translation of De la terre a la lune and Autour de la lune.

Book 1: From the Earth to the Moon: I. The gun club II. President Barbicane's communication III. Effect of the President's communication IV. Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge V. The romance of the moon Virgin Islands The permissive limits of ignorance and belief in the United States Virgin IslandsI. The hymn of the cannon-ball Virgin IslandsII. History of the cannon IX. The question of the powers X. One enemy volume twenty-five millions of friends XI. Florida and Texas XII. Urbi et Orbi XIII. Stones hill XIV. Pickaxe and trowel XV. The fete of the casting XVI. The columbiad XVII. A telegraphic dispatch XVIII. The passenger of the Alanta XIX. A monster meeting XX. Attack and riposte XXI. How a Frenchman manages an affair XXII. The new citizen of the United States XXIII. The projectile-vehicle XXIV. The telescope of the Rocky Mountains XXV. Final details XXVI. Fire! ; XXVII. Foul weather XXVIII. A new star.

Book 2: Round the Moon: Preliminary chapter - Recapitulating the first part of the work and serving as a preface to the second I. From twenty minutes past ten to forty-seven minutes past ten P.M. ; II. The first half hour III. Their place of shelter IV. A little algebra V. The cold of space Virgin Islands Question and answer Virgin IslandsI. A moment of intoxication Virgin IslandsII. At seventy-five thousand five hundred and fourteen leagues IX. The consequences of a deviation X. The observers of the moon XI. Fancy and reality XII. Orographic details XIII. Lunar landscapes XIV. The night of three hundred and fifty-four hours and a half XV. Hyperbola or parabola XVI. The southern hemisphere XVII. Tyco XVIII. Grave questions XIX. A struggle against the impossible XX. The soundings of the Susquehanna XXI. J. T. Maston recalled XXII. Recovered from the sea XXIII. The end.

"From the Earth to the Moon" is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of a Frenchman and two well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing. "Round the Moon", the sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", continues the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel.

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