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A Voyage to the Moon

by Cyrano de Bergerac

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Read by Peter Tucker · 3 h 48 min · 20 parts

  1. Cyrano de Bergerac by Curtis Hidden Page

    22:06

  2. Note on the Translation by Curtis Hidden Page

    2:39

  3. The Translator to the Reader

    7:33

  4. Chapter I

    4:57

  5. Chapter II

    5:57

  6. Chapter III

    13:26

  7. Chapter IV

    5:37

  8. Chapter V

    6:27

  9. Chapter VI

    18:50

  10. Chapter VII

    13:51

  11. Chapter VIII

    14:27

  12. Chapter IX

    20:44

  13. Chapter X

    5:58

  14. Chapter XI

    13:30

  15. Chapter XII

    19:15

  16. Chapter XIII

    9:58

  17. Chapter XIV

    16:31

  18. Chapter XV

    13:08

  19. Chapter XVI

    7:20

  20. Chapter XVII

    6:29

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Poems pay the bills on the Moon, where officials assess each composition before it can circulate as money. This curious custom is one of the inventions encountered by the first-person traveller in Cyrano de Bergerac's comic fiction. His lunar travels become occasions to discuss language, government, natural philosophy and the assumptions people bring to unfamiliar societies.

The English text pairs imaginative adventure with extended conversation. In the sampled scene, the narrator asks how verse can purchase food and lodging, and his companion explains a system that rewards literary merit. Other chapter headings promise debates about atoms, the senses, books and the arrangement of lunar towns. The appeal lies in watching ordinary institutions take unexpected forms: an inn bill becomes a judgment on poetry, while distant inhabitants offer fresh grounds for examining life on Earth. Readers of speculative fiction can follow these playful thought experiments alongside the traveller's experiences.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), in full Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and philosopher who also wrote science fiction. He was additionally a writer of letters and a duelist. His titles include "A Voyage to the Moon".

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Book facts

First published
1657
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
79
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Peter Tucker