This is the only one of Wells' scientific romances to embrace space travel. Thanks to the discovery of the anti-gravity metal cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon.
Mr Kipps was a simple man. To his simple, unsophisticated existence as a draper's assistant, he added layer upon layer of pretence until he had become an entirely new creation - one who could rightly rise to the next social echelon.
