The Island of Doctor Moreau - Softcover

Wells, H G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945644796 ISBN 13: 9781945644795

Publisher: Chump Change, 1896

Synopsis

Unabridged value reproduction of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells is a must-have collectable for every bookshelf. The Island of Doctor Moreau is nonstop suspenseful action that every other surgical sci-fi tale must compare itself against.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a tale that can be viewed in many ways as it multiple layers of social theory, master race evolution, and political theory, which makes it much more interesting than at first would appear.

Up for an all-night adventure steeped in suspense?  Read the heart quickening tale in this unabridged, affordably printed volume that drives the reader to the last page.

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Review

A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Chump Change
• Publication date: 1896
• ISBN 10: 1945644796
• ISBN 13: 9781945644795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62