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by H. G. Wells (Author) "ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1'S. and longitude 107'W ..." (more)
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Like the Hugo and the James above, this is being published to tie in with a recent film adaptation. It nonetheless offers a high-quality hardcover at a reasonable price.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Released in conjunction with the movie featuring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, this audiobook enjoys the talents of a particularly effective reader. Michael Williams has a low-key, cultured British intonation, which sounds almost jaded in parts. Yet he distinguishes the various characters with fluid skill: A sea captain's voice is so rough it sounds like a metal rasp; the beast-men created by Moreau's vivisection sound almost ethereal, as if still exhausted by torture under the knife. There's no musical punctuation or any other enhancement. Williams carries the somber story alone, his voice tense with excitement at times, almost whispering at more contemplative moments. D.W.Ê (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Moral values meet man made MONSTERS!, Aug 26 2006
By Loki Xombi "Nox" (Alberta, ED Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Island of Dr. Moreau (Paperback)
H.G Wells really knew how to write a sci-fi book with insight and style; The Island of Dr. Moreau has tons of both. Truly, Wells was far ahead of his time.

The story starts off with Robert Prendick sailing across the Atlantic, possibly in the Caribbean, heading back to England. The captain of the ship, drunk and out of his mind, has Prendick thrown overboard. Alone, in the ocean, with no chance of survival, Prendick gives up hope and waits to die. Remarkably, a small ship arrives just in time, and they bring Prendick aboard. Among the crew of his rescuers is a small man, covered in fur, with sharp teeth and off-colored eyes. Strange as this man might be, Prendick is to weak to press the crew for an explanation on where this man has come from.
The rescue party takes Prendick to a small island known to most as The Island of Dr. Moreau - the famous chemist/biologist/geneticist (as far as such men existed back in those days). Arriving on the island, Prendick finds this to be a small and not overly amazing place to inhabit while he waits for another ship from England to arrive and take him the rest of the way home. In the meantime, he is to be the good doctors guest, and is attended to by the doctor's odd, grunting, meowling servants.
Prendick eventually discovers that the people inhabiting and working on the island, are in fact animal human hybrids. They were designed to be the best of both worlds: combining human intelligence with the abilities and skills of the animal kingdom. After his frightening discovery, Prendick stumbles into a commune of deformed and mildly crazy half human, half animal men living in the caves and cliffs of the island. These animal-men have a very peculiar religion based on the negation of all things animalistic: thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not eat meat...and so on. All the while, they worship their master and God, Dr. Moreau.
Eventually, all @#$% breaks loose on the island, and Prendick is left to fend for himself against hords of powerful, crazed, and blood thirsty beast-men.
This was a great novel that dives into the questions surrounding human morality, genetic engineering, and the ideas of the soul.
I highly recommend this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Island of Dr. Moreau, May 30 2004
By T. L. McCullough (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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Unfortunately, this book was not near as good as I had hoped - while the basis for "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is a good one, I don't feel that it was executed as well as it could have been. Wells simply did not go into enough detail of the goings-on of the island - only a brief look into Moreau's experiments was given, and the story really could have been better if Wells had gone into what happened after the Beast Men's "rebellion" of sorts. It's almost as if the reader does not get the full effect of what transpires on the island - only a brief overview of the happenings, and then it's over, leaving the reader to wonder "what happens next?". Although, still, the idea itself is quite original and intriguing - I only wish the author would have elabourated on it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps Wells' Finest Novel, Feb 5 2004
By Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Signet Classics Island Of Dr Moreau (Paperback)
Although it is less often read than such Wells novels as THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, the basic story of THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU is very well known through several extremely loose film adaptations. Pendrick, a British scientist, is shipwrecked--and by chance finds himself on an isolated island where Dr. Moreau and his assistant Montgomery are engaged in a series of experiments. They are attempting to transform animals into manlike beings.

Wells, a social reformer, was a very didactic writer, and his novels reflect his thoughts and theories about humanity. Much of Wells writing concerns (either directly or covertly) social class, but while this exists in MOREAU it is less the basic theme than an undercurrent. At core, the novel concerns the then-newly advanced theory of natural selection--and then works to relate how that theory impacts man's concept of God. Wells often touched upon this, and in several novels he broaches the thought that if mankind evolved "up" it might just as easily evolve "down," but nowhere in his work is this line of thought more clearly and specifically seen than here.

At times Wells' determination to teach his reader can overwhelm; at times it can become so subtle that it is nothing short of absolutely obscure. But in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, Wells achieves a perfect balance of the two extremes, even going so far as to balance the characters in such a way that not even the narrator emerges as entirely sympathetic. It is a remarkable achievement, and in this sense I consider MOREAU possibly the best of Wells work: the novel is as interesting for the story it tells as it is for still very relevant themes it considers.

It is also something of an oddity among Wells work, for while Wells often included elements of horror and savagery in his novels, MOREAU is not so much horrific as it is disturbingly gruesome and occasionally deliberately distasteful. This is not really a book than you can read and then put away: it lingers in your mind in a most unsettling way. Strongly recommended.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Island of Doctor Moreau
Vivisection is the practice of performing medical experiments on live animals. In The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Read more
Published on Nov 3 2003 by Jake

4.0 out of 5 stars "None escape..." (4.5 stars)
I never expected to enjoy this book so much. It didn't really seem like something I would enjoy. I admit that I'm not the biggest fan when it comes to science fiction. Read more
Published on Oct 4 2003 by Michael Crane

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless classic on the plasticity of living things
There are two things I associated with H.G. Wells. One is The Time Machine, which of course was the primary inspiration for my all-time favourite TV show, Doctor Who. Read more
Published on Jun 6 2003 by Daniel J. Hamlow

4.0 out of 5 stars Are we not men?
Like The Time Machine, this is a story about the descent of Man. Dr. Moreau turns animals into "men" on his island. Read more
Published on April 19 2002 by JR Pinto

4.0 out of 5 stars A true classic of the genre.
This book is one of a relatively small number of stories that could all be considered prototypes of the "mad scientist" subgenre of the science fiction genre. Read more
Published on Feb 8 2002 by James Yanni

5.0 out of 5 stars A great perspective of humanity.
This book contains views about inhumanity which is very relative to todays technological advances. H. Read more
Published on Oct 3 2001 by Adam Richard Nasar

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and Imaginative
The Island of Doctor Moreau was an excellent book. It had a good plot, and the author had a very creative story line. Read more
Published on Sep 13 2001 by alisha

4.0 out of 5 stars Far-reaching work quite relevant today
This is certainly an interesting work, though not nearly as exciting or gripping as The Time Machine or War of the Worlds. Read more
Published on Sep 2 2001 by Daniel Jolley

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Writer!
How could anyone possibly give an H.G. Wells book, anything less than 5 stars? This may sound silly but I often wondered if Mister Wells had a time machine! Read more
Published on Aug 11 2001 by D. Feindel

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick and Interesting
This novella is interesting as a piece of science fiction, the genre of which H.G. Wells is sometimes called the father. Read more
Published on Jun 28 2001 by Adam E. Silbestein

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