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The Island Of Doctor Moreau
  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141973999
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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The Island Of Doctor Moreau

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21 Nov 2012
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'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments - with truly horrific results.
  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141973999
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
Categories:

About the author

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

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Praise for The Island Of Doctor Moreau

A grisly Darwinian heart-of-darkness fantasy

Daily Telegraph

A master writer

Guardian

The Island of Dr. Moreau takes us into an abyss of human nature. This book is a superb piece of storytelling

V. S. Pritchett

A dark and sinister fable about science versus nature. Beware the House of Pain!

The Times

The Island of Doctor Moreau is one of those books that, once read, is rarely forgotten

Margaret Atwood

A lurid Darwinian nightmare...pushes unnervingly at the boundaries of what it is to be human and still reads as freshly as when it was first published.

Evening Standard