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A chi è rivolto
You will enjoy this if you like inventive American storytelling, warm Christmas tales, playful science, and narrators who chat with you like a friend by the fire.
Che cos’è questo libro
A moon made of brick, two hundred feet wide, is going to be fired into the sky by two giant flywheels. Why would anyone build it? Edward Everett Hale tells that tale and many more in this collection of Christmas stories, comic tales and gentle visions. You get a young carpenter hiding in the city, a missing railway car and a girl lost in Boston. First, the moon and the sailors it was meant to save.
In questo riassunto
- 1Friends dream up a moon for sailorsFree
- 2Seventeen years later, money and friends return
- 3A war and a wilderness make the moon possible
- 4Winter brings families into the moon
- 5A young carpenter builds a secret home in New York
- 6A family searches for lost papers on Christmas
- 7A railway leap shows how fast a bad idea grows
- 8Small kindnesses solve problems no one planned for
- 9Friends test a happier way to live together
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Friends dream up a moon for sailors
The title story begins in a college dining hall. A group of students, led by one called Q, puzzle over the problem of longitude. Finding latitude is easy, since the height of the North Star tells you. Longitude is harder, and ships are lost on lee shores because captains do not know where they are.
Q proposes a ring above the earth, then a giant peashooter, then something better. A huge round object circling over one meridian would let anyone read their position from the sky. It must be solid enough to survive the fire of the air, so it must be brick. The friends settle on two hundred feet across and hollow inside, and they plan two flywheels to fling it upward.
The cost stops them cold. The bricks alone come to sixty thousand dollars, and they are young men with unpaid college bills. So the Brick Moon waits for seventeen years as a dream, until old friends return with money and nerve.
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Questions about La luna di mattoni e altri racconti
What is The Brick Moon about?
A group of friends plan and build a giant brick sphere to be launched into orbit above the earth, so sailors can use it to find their longitude at sea.
What stories are in The Brick Moon and Other Stories?
Besides the title story, the book includes Crusoe in New York, Bread on the Waters, The Lost Palace, 99 Linwood Street, Ideals, One Cent, Thanksgiving at the Polls and The Survivor's Story.
Is The Brick Moon an early story about a satellite?
Yes, it appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870 and 1871, and it describes a man-made moon in orbit long before space flight.
Why is the moon made of brick?
The friends reason that anything thrown through the air would burn, so the moon must be solid and fireproof. Iron will not do, and brick suits the task.
Is this book easy to read?
The stories are short and told in a chatty, humorous voice, with clear scenes and lively dialogue, so you can enjoy them one at a time.