The Island of Doctor Moreau (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Wells, H. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008190054 ISBN 13: 9780008190057

Verlag: William Collins, 2017

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Páginas: 62 Géneros: 12:FA:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 12:FC:Classic fiction (pre c 1945) 12:FH:Thriller / suspense Sinopsis: 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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‘The Island of Doctor Moreau takes us into an abyss of human nature. This book is a superb piece of storytelling’ V. S. Pritchett

‘[Wells’ work is] astonishingly rich in human and historical interest ... he foresaw the invention of, among other things, television, tanks, aerial warfare and the atom bomb’ David Lodge

‘I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells’ Upton Sinclair

‘The father of science fiction’ Guardian

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“That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear.”

Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island where he meets the mysterious Doctor Moreau. Horrified by the discovery that Moreau is performing vivisection on animals to form monstrous human hybrids, Prendick flees into the jungle. But he soon realises that the island is populated with Moreau’s terrible creations, and not all are divested of their savage habits . . .

H. G. Wells pioneered ideas of society, science and progress in his works, which are now considered modern classics. Written in 1896, The Island of Doctor Moreau is an imaginative exploration of the nature of cruelty and what it means to be human.

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• Verlag: William Collins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0008190054
• ISBN 13: 9780008190057
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192