FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
Author:
Jules Verne
First edition:
De la Terre à la Lune, Hetzel, 1865
Main illustrators:
Bayard Politzer Riou
In short:
A group of American artillerymen, part of the Gun Club, decide to fire a shell to the moon with a gigantic cannon. Three passengers who requested to go on the journey take up their positions in the shell: the president of the Gun Club, Barbicane, Captain Nicholl and a very jovial Frenchman, Michel Ardan.
Selection of edition:
De la Terre à la Lune, illustrated by Emile Bayard et A. de Neuville, Hetzel.
Voyage de la terre à la lune, illustrated by Edouard Riou, Hetzel, 1867.
De la terre à la lune, illustrated by Luc Weissmuller, Hachette, 1990.
De la Terre à la Lune, illustrated by Michel Politzer, Hachette, 1994.
More about it:
From the Earth to the Moon was part of another book, Round the Moon, published in 1870. The origin of the name of Ardan has been widely debated: has it anything to do with Nadar, the famous photographer and balloon pilot friend of Jules Verne?
Adaptations:
Georges Méliès directed a mythical film called "Le Voyage dans la Lune" in 1902.