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  • Published: 5 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473546837
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

The Island of Doctor Moreau




A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.

They say that terror is a disease...

A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments of the infamous Doctor Moreau will reach their inevitable conclusion.

  • Published: 5 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473546837
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

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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