The Island of Doctor Moreau
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The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick di...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af The Island of Doctor Moreau af H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick discovers Moreau is performing horrific experiments, using vivisection to craft animals into human beings. ''The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals. . ''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 realises his danger and the extremes of the Doctor''s experiments. 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 of scientific openness and advancement, but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of scientific discoveries, and their implications for religion. Darryl Jones''s introduction places the book in both its scientific and literary context; with the Origin of Species and Gulliver''s Travels, and argues that The Island of Doctor Moreau is, like all of Wells''s best fiction, is fundamentally a novel of ideas
Detaljer
Forlag
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198702665
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
176
Udgivelsesdato
09-02-2017
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2954328
EAN nr.
9780198702665
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
130
Bredde (mm)
196
Længde (mm)
11
Vægt (g)
136