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Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.
While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s adventures on Dr. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.
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Islands, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Fiction, Animal experimentation, Horror stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, English literature, Science fiction, Occultism, English Science fiction, Shipwreck survival, Animal experimentation -- Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Island of Dr. Moreau (Motion picture : 1977), Science, Ethics, Shipwreck survival -- Fiction, Islands -- Fiction, Children's fiction, Cartoons and comics, Animals, fiction, Survival, Supervivencia después de accidentes aéreos, naufragios, Novela, Experimentacion animal, Islas, Habiletés de survie, Romans, nouvelles, Expérimentation animale, Îles, Supervivencia (después de accidentes aéreos, naufragios, etc.), Fiction, general, Shipwrecl survival, Wells, h. g. (herbert george) , 1866-1946, Animal experimentation--fiction, Pr5774 .i8 2005, 823.912, Pr5774 .i8 1993b, 823/.912Times
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The Island of Dr Moreau (Penguin Classics)
June 28, 2005, Penguin Classics
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (Tor Classics)
September 15, 1996, Tor Classics
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La Isla Del Doctor Moreau
January 1, 1990, GSR Internacional (Anaya)
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