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The Island of Doctor Moreau

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
4 hours 26 minutes
ISBN
9781787369818
Published
23 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • vivisection
  • shipwreck
  • ethical limits
  • science fiction
  • animal experimentation
  • morality
  • human-animal hybrids
  • isolated island
  • psychological horror
  • evolution

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Description

Shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds Dr Moreau vivisecting animals into Beast Folk on a remote island, then faces the thin line between man and beast. Wells's chilling study of science without mercy. Spoken as when refuge turns out to be a laboratory of living nightmares.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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