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THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU - H G WELLS KARTONI...

'That black figure  with its eyes of fire  struck down through all my adult thoughts and
feelings  and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind' 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. Tended to recovery
by their keeper Montgomery  who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood  Prendick soon
finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts.
Here  he meets Montgomery's master  the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose
notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon
becomes clear he has been developing these experiments - with truly horrific results. The
Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English  from the eighteenth
century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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