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The Island of Doctor Moreau

H.G. Wells

Paperback | Pages: 153 pages

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Original Title:	The Island of Dr. Moreau
ISBN:	0553214322 (ISBN13: 9780553214321)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dr. Moreau, Dr. Montgomery, Edward Prendick

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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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Title	:	The Island of Doctor Moreau
Author	:	H.G. Wells
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 153 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1994 by Bantam Classics (first published 1896)
Categories	:	Classics. Science Fiction. Fiction. Horror. Fantasy

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"Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?Not to eat Flesh or Fish; that is the Law. Are we not Men?Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men?Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?"H.G. Wells 1896 novella The Island of Dr. Moreau may have been a science fiction / fantasy precursor of William Goldings 1954 classic Lord of the Flies. Both works explore the theme of the fragility of humanity

I think Vegans will like this book because they would say this is what happens if you start to eat dairy and wear leather, suede, pearls, silk or fur. Eventually you will think nothing of eating pepperoni pizza and monkey brains. And from eating animals it will be a short step to thinking its okay to experiment on them for better cosmetics. And from that its only natural that you will end up creating a horrible race of Beast People by vivisection on an isolated island in the South Pacific. Well

Much creepier than I expected and much smarter, The Island of Dr. Moreau, as with so much of H.G. Wells' science fiction, addressed the ethical pitfalls of a scientific eventuality far too early to be anything other than prophetic, yet it still manages to be more entertaining than preachy. Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on an island with Doctors Montgomery and Moreau. The former a follower of the latter, who just happens to be a mad vivisectionist. Beyond these scientists, Prendick

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write reports on whether or not they deserve the labelBook #16: The Island of Dr Moreau, by HG Wells (1896)The story in a nutshell:Along with French author Jules Verne, the British HG Wells is considered one of the

The Island of Doctor Moreau? Please! Who among us hasnt gambolled in fields with apecats, badgies, cockpigs, donrets, elephocks, ferrats, gerbats, horsharks, iguanomones, jagutans, kookakeys, llamoles, monkelots, narwhelks, ostringos, pandicoots, quaileeches, rhinilgais, shaardvarks, tigeels, uintapmunks, volemice, wombulls, xanthraffes, yakapes and zebrams? In your back garden (or if you live in a city, in the countrysidea mythical place where grass exists), trillions of micro-organisms are

I started this in early August, but it took me a while to finish it. One of the reasons is it's a profoundly unsettling book. I'm a scientist by training, and I take the ethics of science pretty personally. Dr. Moreau crosses so many ethical/moral lines in his experimentation, it's not even funny. Some things just should not be done, even if it's to advance scientific knowledge. I am also a inveterate lover of animals, and I felt a horrible rage at the way Dr. Moreau was torturing animals. I

Edward Prendick "fails" on the island of Doctor Moreau. Very quickly, he realizes that it is populated by creatures stemming from the experimentation of the doctor. A half-beast half-man, or beasts who take themselves for men.Actual lack of intrigue, very limited suspense, short format but almost too long.Lack of visual, not horrified, barely stunned, may be horrible and visionary in 1896, but I have already read much more violent, more powerful and more addictive. In short, a narrative without