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  • Published: 20 March 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872106
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

The Island of Doctor Moreau




A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.


A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.

They say that terror is a disease...

A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments of the infamous Doctor Moreau will reach their inevitable conclusion.

  • Published: 20 March 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872106
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

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About the author

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells, the third son of a small shopkeeper, was born in Bromley in 1866. After two years' apprenticeship in a draper's shop, he became a pupil-teacher at Midhurst Grammar School and won a scholarship to study under T. H. Huxley at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington. He taught biology before becoming a professional writer and journalist. He wrote more than a hundred books, including novels, essays, histories and programmes for world regeneration.

Wells, who rose from obscurity to world fame, had an emotionally and intellectually turbulent life. His prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction such as The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). Later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress, whose anticipations of a future world state include The Shape of Things to Come (1933). His controversial views on sexual equality and women's rights were expressed in the novels Ann Veronica (1909) and The New Machiavelli (1911). He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

Wells drew on his own early struggles in many of his best novels, including Love and Mr Lewisham (1900), Kipps (1905), Tono-Bungay (1909) and The History of Mr Polly (1910). His educational works, some written in collaboration, include The Outline of History (1920) and The Science of Life (1930). His Experiment in Autobiography (2 vols., 1934) reviews his world. He died in London in 1946.

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Praise for The Island of Doctor Moreau

A grisly Darwinian heart-of-darkness fantasy

Daily Telegraph

A master writer

Guardian

The Island of Dr. Moreau takes us into an abyss of human nature. This book is a superb piece of storytelling

V. S. Pritchett

A dark and sinister fable about science versus nature. Beware the House of Pain!

The Times

The Island of Doctor Moreau is one of those books that, once read, is rarely forgotten

Margaret Atwood

A lurid Darwinian nightmare...pushes unnervingly at the boundaries of what it is to be human and still reads as freshly as when it was first published.

Evening Standard