Name: Matthew Jackson's review of The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics) by H. G. Wells
Item: The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics)
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Author: Matthew Jackson

H. G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics)

Matthew Jackson

Deyana

Did not like this one as much as Wells's The Time Machine, but it was still striking in its prose drenched in decadence.

Barbara Williford

As an Anatomy and Biology teacher I was especially intrigued by this book. It was filled with adventure, thrills, mystery, murder and intrigue. It also gets you thinking about morality, especially scientific morality and ethics. Where is the line in the sand drawn and do we dare cross it?

The Island of Dr Moreau (Penguin Classics)

Karim Nas

H.G. Wells

""ARE WE NOT MEN?"" Edward Prendick survives a shipwreck and winds up on a remote Pacific island, where a mad scientist is vivisecting animals to create hybrid beast people. Will Prendick survive and recover from the horrors he has seen? Will anyone believe him? In this classic early science-fiction novel, H.G. Wells exposes the anxieties of the Victorian Age: fearing the implications of evolutionary theory, disturbed by the godlike power of science over nature, & doubtful about the inevitability of human progress. Might humans be capable of degeneration? The Island of Dr. Moreau raises vital questions about bioethics, animal rights, & the nature of humanity. Published by Spruce Alley Press

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Mirjana Prodan

Loredana

Kiki Kawai

Dark subjects. Important thoughts. Witty writing. 

Kerri McDonald

Another classic H.G. Wells novel. It has all the taste of him: bizarre circumstances and a smattering of science to make it on the edge of possibility. I enjoy his books, but I always feel like I've been left wanting. They just seem so short and like so much more detail could have been put in. Still, it was an enjoyable, short read.

Jana Pashovska

Weird and gruesome - exactly how I like it.

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals.

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