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

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells '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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