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The Island of Doctor Moreau

by Wells Herbert George

Science Fiction & Fantasy » Science Fiction

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When thinking about famous novelist Herbert George Wells, everyone first recalls The War of the Worlds and only then The Island of Doctor Moreau occurs. Like all books created by G.H. Wells, this one reflects the writer's ideas concerning social and economic structure and the contemporary society, as well as the popular tendencies in science popular at that time, including the theory of natural selection. In this novel we meet a scientist Pendrick who was saved by a miracle after his ship sank and finds himself on s deserted island. There Dr. Moreau and his assistant Montgomery conduct a number of researches and experiments aiming at turning beasts into more advanced and developed creatures which would resemble human beings. The characters are perfectly described and the plot itself is carrying away. Unlike movies, shot after the book, the story itself does not contain horror elements of scenes. The book is fascinating and bright, the ideas put in there are wise and deep... These make The Island of Doctor Moreau a story not only for one-time reading but for constant return to it.

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...to and fro on the beach, making the mostgrotesque movements. At a word of command from Montgomery, the four men in the launchsprang up, and with singularly awkward gestures struck the lugs. Montgomery steered us round and into a narrow little dock excavatedin the beach. Then the man on the beach hastened towards us. This dock, as I call it, was really a mere ditch just longenough at this phase of the tide to take the longboat. I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudderof the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed. The three muffled men, with the clumsiest movements, scrambled outupon the sand, and forthwith set to landing the cargo, assisted bythe man on the beach. I was struck especially by the curiousmovements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen, --notstiff they were, but distorted in some odd way, almost as if theywere jointed in the wrong place. The dogs were still snarling, and strained at their chains after these men,...