Earthbound by Lester Del Rey
Read now or download (free!)
| Choose how to read this book | Url | Size | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read online (web) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.html.images | 29 kB | ||||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.epub3.images | 121 kB | ||||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.epub.images | 120 kB | ||||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.epub.noimages | 68 kB | ||||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.kf8.images | 151 kB | ||||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.kindle.images | 144 kB | ||||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876.txt.utf-8 | 23 kB | ||||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50876/pg50876-h.zip | 108 kB | ||||
| There may be more files related to this item. | ||||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Del Rey, Lester, 1915-1993 |
|---|---|
| Title | Earthbound |
| Note | Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net |
| Summary | "Earthbound" by Lester Del Rey is a science fiction short story published in the early 1960s. The narrative centers around the yearning for space exploration and addresses the themes of dreams, solitude, and human limitation. The story reflects Del Rey's imagination of a future filled with space travel and the impact it has on individuals who aspire to leave Earth behind for the stars. In the story, Clifton, a once-celebrated space hero, finds himself reluctantly back on Earth, surrounded by celebratory crowds. Feeling trapped and discontent, he encounters an old man named Ahasuerus, who has devoted his life to making space boots yet has never traveled beyond Earth. Their exchange reveals the deep longing Ahasuerus harbors for the cosmos, contrasting with Clifton's own frustration and disappointment toward his return. Moved by Ahasuerus's dream of going to space, Clifton offers him a place on his upcoming journey to Rigel. However, Ahasuerus feels bound by a destiny that keeps him on Earth, symbolizing the constraints that life can impose, despite one's aspirations to explore the universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Wandering Jew -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 50876 |
| Release Date | Jan 8, 2016 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 81 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |
