Island of Doctor Moreau, Paperback by Wells, H. G.; Jones, Darryl (EDT), Bran...
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Island of Doctor Moreau, Paperback by Wells, H. G.; Jones, Darryl (EDT), Bran.... Island of Doctor Moreau, Paperback by Wells, H. G.; Jones, Darryl (EDT), ISBN 0198702663, ISBN-13 9780198702665, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain, and by his encounters with half-bestial creatures, Edward slowly realizes his danger and the extremes of the Doctor'sexperiments.Saturated in pain and disgust, suffused with grotesque and often unbearable images of torture and bodily mutilation, The Island of Doctor Moreau is unquestionably a shocking novel. It is also a serious, and highly knowledgeable, philosophical engagement with Wells's times, with their climate ofscientific openness and advancement, but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of scientific discoveries, and their implications for religion. Darryl Jones's introduction places th in both its scientific and literary context; with the Origin of Species and Gulliver's Travels, andargues that The Island of Doctor Moreau is, like all of Wells's best fiction, is fundamentally a novel of ideas.
