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diff --git a/1013-h/1013-h.htm b/1013-h/1013-h.htm index 6fcfa98..86ca94e 100644 --- a/1013-h/1013-h.htm +++ b/1013-h/1013-h.htm @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> +<meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The First Men In The Moon | Project Gutenberg</title> -<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> -<style type="text/css"> +<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" > +<style> body { margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; @@ -65,17 +63,17 @@ a:hover {color:red} <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1013 ***</div> <div class="fig" style="width:75%;"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="[Illustration]"> </div> <h1>The First Men In The Moon</h1> <h2 class="no-break">by H. G. Wells</h2> -<hr /> +<hr > <h2>Contents</h2> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr> <td> <a href="#chap01">I. Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne</a></td> @@ -185,7 +183,7 @@ a:hover {color:red} <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap01"></a>I.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap01"></a>I.<br > Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne</h2> <p> @@ -973,7 +971,7 @@ practical absurdity. Or when we make it, there may be some little hitch!” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap02"></a>II.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap02"></a>II.<br > The First Making of Cavorite</h2> <p> @@ -1327,7 +1325,7 @@ as a foreman. But that matter we compromised after two days’ delay. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap03"></a>III.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap03"></a>III.<br > The Building of the sphere</h2> <p> @@ -1842,7 +1840,7 @@ at an end. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap04"></a>IV.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap04"></a>IV.<br > Inside the Sphere</h2> <p> @@ -2092,7 +2090,7 @@ journey; it was like the beginning of a dream. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap05"></a>V.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap05"></a>V.<br > The Journey to the Moon</h2> <p> @@ -2368,14 +2366,14 @@ moonlight, wished each other good-night, and almost immediately fell asleep. <p> And so, sleeping, and sometimes talking and reading a little, and at times -eating, although without any keenness of appetite,<a href="#fn-1" name="fnref-1" id="fnref-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +eating, although without any keenness of appetite,<a href="#fn-1" id="fnref-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> but for the most part in a sort of quiescence that was neither waking nor slumber, we fell through a space of time that had neither night nor day in it, silently, softly, and swiftly down towards the moon. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn-1" id="fn-1"></a> <a href="#fnref-1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn-1"></a> <a href="#fnref-1">[1]</a> It is a curious thing, that while we were in the sphere we felt not the slightest desire for food, nor did we feel the want of it when we abstained. At first we forced our appetites, but afterwards we fasted completely. Altogether @@ -2388,7 +2386,7 @@ low, but why this was, I am quite unable to explain. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap06"></a>VI.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap06"></a>VI.<br > The Landing on the Moon</h2> <p> @@ -2572,7 +2570,7 @@ We peered out upon the landscape of the moon. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap07"></a>VII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap07"></a>VII.<br > Sunrise on the Moon</h2> <p> @@ -2815,7 +2813,7 @@ sitting position, and I could see with my own eyes. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap08"></a>VIII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap08"></a>VIII.<br > A Lunar Morning</h2> <p> @@ -2987,7 +2985,7 @@ bright there, and towards the edges magnified and unreal. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap09"></a>IX.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap09"></a>IX.<br > Prospecting Begins</h2> <p> @@ -3450,7 +3448,7 @@ sphere?” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap10"></a>X.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap10"></a>X.<br > Lost Men in the Moon</h2> <p> @@ -3766,7 +3764,7 @@ machinery, and presently—the bellowing of great beasts! <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap11"></a>XI.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap11"></a>XI.<br > The Mooncalf Pastures</h2> <p> @@ -3860,7 +3858,7 @@ When next we saw mooncalves they were some little distance away from us in a place of tumbled rocks. The less vertical surfaces of the rocks were thick with a speckled green plant growing in dense mossy clumps, upon which these creatures were browsing. We stopped at the edge of the reeds amidst which we -were crawling at the sight of them, peering out at then and looking round for a +were crawling at the sight of them, peering out at them and looking round for a second glimpse of a Selenite. They lay against their food like stupendous slugs, huge, greasy hulls, eating greedily and noisily, with a sort of sobbing avidity. They seemed monsters of mere fatness, clumsy and overwhelmed to a @@ -4249,7 +4247,7 @@ heads racked with pain. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap12"></a>XII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap12"></a>XII.<br > The Selenite’s Face</h2> <p> @@ -4502,7 +4500,7 @@ were in that murmurous mystery of darkness into which we had awakened. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap13"></a>XIII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap13"></a>XIII.<br > Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions</h2> <p> @@ -4941,7 +4939,7 @@ I could note that Cavor, too, had been eating with the same shameless abandon. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap14"></a>XIV.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap14"></a>XIV.<br > Experiments in intercourse</h2> <p> @@ -5197,7 +5195,7 @@ and gestures, confronting us, and we two unsupported men! <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap15"></a>XV.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap15"></a>XV.<br > The Giddy Bridge</h2> <p> @@ -5824,7 +5822,7 @@ him with a beating heart. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap16"></a>XVI.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap16"></a>XVI.<br > Points of View</h2> <p> @@ -6335,7 +6333,7 @@ vigour after Cavor’s blue-lit heels. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap17"></a>XVII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap17"></a>XVII.<br > The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers</h2> <p> @@ -6484,7 +6482,7 @@ the effect of our first glimpse down the shaft. <p> It seemed to me at first that the Selenites must be standing on -trestle-supported planks,<a href="#fn-2" name="fnref-2" id="fnref-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> +trestle-supported planks,<a href="#fn-2" id="fnref-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> and then I saw that the planks and supports and the hatchets were really of the same leaden hue as my fetters had seemed before white light came to bear on them. A number of very thick-looking crowbars lay about the floor, and had @@ -6494,7 +6492,7 @@ whole place was lit by three transverse streams of the blue fluid. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn-2" id="fn-2"></a> <a href="#fnref-2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn-2"></a> <a href="#fnref-2">[2]</a> I do not remember seeing any wooden things on the moon; doors, tables, everything corresponding to our terrestrial joinery was made of metal, and I believe for the most part of gold, which as a metal would, of course, naturally @@ -6829,7 +6827,7 @@ after Cavor. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap18"></a>XVIII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap18"></a>XVIII.<br > In the Sunlight</h2> <p> @@ -7299,7 +7297,7 @@ I determined not to lose sight of that handkerchief whatever might betide. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap19"></a>XIX.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap19"></a>XIX.<br > Mr. Bedford Alone</h2> <p> @@ -7779,7 +7777,7 @@ my eyes. I was in the silence and darkness of the inter-planetary sphere. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap20"></a>XX.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap20"></a>XX.<br > Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space</h2> <p> @@ -8027,7 +8025,7 @@ which I must fall to earth. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap21"></a>XXI.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap21"></a>XXI.<br > Mr. Bedford at Littlestone</h2> <p> @@ -8694,7 +8692,7 @@ than half believe myself that the whole thing was a dream.... <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap22"></a>XXII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap22"></a>XXII.<br > The Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius Wendigee</h2> <p> @@ -8815,7 +8813,7 @@ own. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap23"></a>XXIII.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap23"></a>XXIII.<br > An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor</h2> <p> @@ -9076,7 +9074,7 @@ Selenite mind.... <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap24"></a>XXIV.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap24"></a>XXIV.<br > The Natural History of the Selenites</h2> <p> @@ -9693,7 +9691,7 @@ inevitably struggle for mastery—gold as common as iron or wood... <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap25"></a>XXV.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap25"></a>XXV.<br > The Grand Lunar</h2> <p> @@ -10317,7 +10315,7 @@ Wendigee and myself now believe it to be, that he is ever likely to send us. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap26"></a>XXVI.<br /> +<h2><a id="chap26"></a>XXVI.<br > The Last Message Cavor sent to the Earth</h2> <p> |