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The Island of Dr. Moreau

By H.G. Wells

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| Paperback | 9780486290270

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Enormously inventive tale about a mad surgeon-turned-vivisectionist on a remote island who performs ghoulish experiments that transform animals into men. It is one of Wells’s earliest and most sinister personifications of the scientific quest to control and manipulate the natural world, and, ultimatContinue

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I liked the message behind the story.

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Hanan said on Dec 25, 2011 | Add your feedback

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Delightfully disturbing

Surely of one most disturbing novels of Wells. I liked it much better than the more fortunate "war of the worlds".
It can be listened to at:
http://www.archive.org/details/island_moreau_librivox
Original Text can be found at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159-h/159-h.htm

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daniele said on Jan 24, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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*** This comment contains spoilers! ***

Da Shakespeare a Mary Shelley passando per Defoe. 'What the Master whishes to kill the Master kills'.
Parabola darwiniana. Not to go on all-Fours. That is the Law.
Satira religiosa. His is the Hand that wounds.
Moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of ins ... (continue)

Da Shakespeare a Mary Shelley passando per Defoe. 'What the Master whishes to kill the Master kills'.
Parabola darwiniana. Not to go on all-Fours. That is the Law.
Satira religiosa. His is the Hand that wounds.
Moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into corageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion. ...That is the Law o piuttosto è la società contemporanea?
'You're the beast. He takes his liquor like a Christian (...)'.

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Emanuele Olly said on Dec 26, 2008 | Add your feedback

La mia recensione su Horror.it:
http://www.horror.it/a/2012/02/lisola-del-dottor-moreau…

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Fatamorgana said on Feb 4, 2012 | Add your feedback

Bill made me a gorgeous copy of this book, cursive script and beautiful green leaf patterned paper boards. I ended up reading the whole thing in one go last night.
This was the last of wells' fantastical fiction that I'd not read. I have to say I really really enjoyed it. While the prose was not as ... (continue)

Bill made me a gorgeous copy of this book, cursive script and beautiful green leaf patterned paper boards. I ended up reading the whole thing in one go last night.
This was the last of wells' fantastical fiction that I'd not read. I have to say I really really enjoyed it. While the prose was not as beautiful as war of the worlds there was something very atmospheric and disturbing about the writing. I felt like I'd been transported to the island where the constant screams of tortured animals filled the air.
While I found the idea of transforming animals into humans through surgery a bit silly it was still very gruesome. I really liked that this was a Victorian novel about the nature of humanity and what keeps us apart from the animals but didn't once mention an immortal soul or god. Here the humans were in many ways much worse than the animals and a much larger threat. I also loved how traumatized the author was by his experiences and the way it haunted him after he left the island, perhaps that ending was more disturbing than the rest of the book.
For a book that was entirely devoid of women characters I still enjoyed and felt disturbed by it. Definitely one of the better fantasies.

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Robot-mel said on Jan 6, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback