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The Island of Doctor Moreau

Herbert George Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Paper book: €23.99

Digital: €8.99

Original publication
1896
Pages
343
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Moods
Get the chills, Think it through, Imagine tomorrow
Translated from
English

Book summary

Saved from a shipwreck, Edward Prendick is put ashore on a remote island in the Pacific, home to a banished scientist, Dr Moreau, and his assistant. At night, screams come from the laboratory. The island's strange inhabitants recite a Law like a prayer: “Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law.”

H. G. Wells asks a question that is still with us: how far does science have the right to go, and what separates man from animal?

Full of suspense, this novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A castaway meets a scientist in exile. After a shipwreck, Edward Prendick, an Englishman with a passion for science, lands on Doctor Moreau’s island. The name reminds him of a scandal: in London, a journalist had…

The world of the book

A Pacific island in the time of Darwin. The story takes place in 1887, on the island where Doctor Moreau, an English scientist, lives in hiding. It is a small volcano ringed by coral reefs, more than 2,000 kilometres…

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