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插图：That evening a stranger in Baltimore would have been unable to enter the meeting hall no matter how much he might have been willing to pay. It was reserved exclusively for the resident and corresponding members of the Gun Club, and no one else was admitted into it. Even the local dignitaries and the members of the city government had to mingle with the crowd and try to catch word of what was taking place insideMeanwhile the meeting hall presented a curious spectacle. This immense room was wonderfully well adapted to its purpose. Tall pillars composed of superposed cannons resting on bases of thick mortars supported the lacy wrought-iron reinforcements of the ceiling. The walls were adorned with clusters of blunderbusses, arquebuses, muskets, carbines, and allother kinds of firearms, ancient and modem. Gas blazed from a thousand drevolvers grouped in the form of chandeliers; the magnificent lighting was completed by candelabra composed of pistols and rifles. Models of cannons, samples of bronze, sighting marks shot full of holes, metal platesshattered by the cannon balls of the Gun Club, collections of rammers and sponges, strings of bombs, necklaces of projectiles, garlands of shells in short, all the tools of the artilleryman, surprised the eye by their astonishing.

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凡尔纳的小说启发了我的思想，使我按一定方向去幻想。　　——苏联宇航之父齐奥尔科夫斯基我并不是不知道您的作品的科学价值，但我最珍重的却是它们的纯道德价值和精神力量。　　——教皇利奥十三世

内容概要

儒勒·凡尔纳(1828-1905)生于法国的南特。他还在巴黎求学时就开始给剧院编剧了。他的第一部小说是《气球上的五星期》(1862)，此后他又陆续创作了60多部科幻小说和冒险故事，成为当时最著名的作家之一。

书籍目录

Chapter 1  The Gun ClubChapter 2  President Barbicane's AnnouncementChapter 3  The Effect of Barbicane's AnnouncementChapter 4  Reply from the Cambridge ObservatoryChapter 5  The Romance oF the MoonChapter 6  What It Is Impossible Not to Know and What It Is No Longer Permissible to Believe in the United StatesChapter 7  The Hymn to the ProjectileChapter 8  The Story of the CannonChapter 9  The Ouestion oF PowderChapter 10  One Enemy Among Twenty-Five Million FriendsChapter 11  Florida and TexasChapter 12  Urbi Et OrbiChapter 13  Stone HillChapter 14  Pick and TrowelChapter 15  The Festival oF CastingChapter 16  The CannonChapter 17  A CablegramChapter 18  The Passenger on the AtlantaChaplet 19  A MeefingCkapfer 20  Tbrusf and CounterthrustChaplet 21  How a Frenchman Seffles a QuarrelChaplet 22  A New Citizen of fhe Unifed StatesChaplet 23  The Projectile CoachChaplet 24  The Longs Peak TelescopeChapfer 25  Final DetailsChapfer 26  Fire!Chaplet 27  Cloudy WeatherChaplet 28  A New Heavenly Body

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《凡尔纳经典作品·从地球到月球(插图本)》内容简介：美国南北战争结束后，大炮俱乐部主席巴比康提议向月球发射一颗炮弹，建立地球与月球之间的联系。法国冒险家阿当获悉这一消息后建议造一颗空心炮弹，他邀请巴比康和尼科尔一同乘这颗炮弹到月球去探险。三个人克服了种种困难，终于乘坐这颗炮弹向月球出发了。可是他们并没有到达目的地，炮弹没有在月球上着陆，却成为月球的卫星，无止境地绕月运行，三位探险家的命运无人能知……

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