The Island of Doctor Moreau

Informationen zum Autor H. G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist! who published more than a hundred books! including novels! histories! essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction! but later he became an apostle of socialism! science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was! in Bertrand Russell's words! 'an important liberator of thought and action'. Klappentext 'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island! in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Zusammenfassung 'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series

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• Authors: H G Wells, H. G. Wells, H.G. Wells, Herbert G Wells, Herbert G. Wells
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9780241261828
• ISBN: 978-0-241-26182-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 185 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Classics; Pocket Penguins; Penguin Pocket Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks; Pocket Penguins; Penguin Pocket Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature