![]() ![]() On this island Prendick meets the mysterious Moreau, a disbarred surgeon of superlative genius but rather less outstanding moral capacity. But as has been the case with all of Wellss work, Im rather impressed by the longevity and continued relevance of this work.'In The Island of Doctor Moreau Wells sinks his analytical scalpel deep into all things social, and the result is a novel that is as chilling as it is thought-provoking.Įdward Prendick is stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere, an event that necessarily severs him from the norms and confines of civilised society, and which sets up the shocking dichotomy between savagery and humanity with which Wells is to bombard us for the next few hundred pages. Though I have awful memories of the film adaptation of this novel (oh, Marlon, what happened to you?), I havent actually enjoyed this novel in print form before. Ah, my third HG Wells in as many months, and the third book in which Wells gets his didactic on. ![]()
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