Contents
Introduction The True History (200 CE) Lucian The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child (10th c. CE) Traditional Japanese Folk Tale The Man in the Moone (c. 1627-1629) Francis Godwin Excerpt from A Voyage to Cacklogallinia (1727) Samuel Brunt (pseudo.) The Men of the Moon (from the History of New York) (1809) Washington Irving Excerpt from A Voyage to the Moon (1827) Joseph Atterley (pseud. of George Tucker) The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835) Edgar Allan Poe The Moon Hoax (1835) Richard Adams Locke Appendix: Poe on the Moon Hoax |