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

A classic of science fiction and a dark meditation on Darwinian thought in the late Victorian
period  The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the possibility of civilization as a constraint
imposed on savage human nature. The protagonist  Edward Prendick  finds himself stranded on an
island with the notorious Doctor Moreau  whose experiments on the islandâ??s humans and animals
result in unspeakable horrors. The critical introduction to this Broadview Edition gives
particular emphasis to Wells's hostility towards religion as well as his thorough knowledge of
the Darwinian thought of his time. Appendices provide passages from Darwin and Huxley related
to Wells's early writing  in addition  excerpts from other writers illustrate
late-nineteenth-century anxieties about social degeneration.

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