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The Island of Doctor Moreau Kindle Edition

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (Author)

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Product Details

File Size: 279 KB
Print Length: 144 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publication Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B0083Z3M7W
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Wonderfully horrifying

By Karen M on September 9, 2013

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H.G. Welles wrote this book in 1896. It is so well written it is definitely a classic in subtle horror. An island mainly populated by man-made creatures ruled over by, well, a mad scientist or is he a man before his time. Is there validity in what Dr. Moreau achieves or is it madness driven obsession?

Castaway not once but twice, Edward Prendick ends up on an island at the mercy of Dr. Moreau and his assistant Montgomery. He is an unwanted guest and an unfortunate observer of what has been going on for ten years on this island. Frightening and frightened creatures roam the island surrounding the compound and at night there are fearful cries of pain from within the compound. What has Prendick stumbled upon?

Wonderful book and a very imaginative and horrifying story.

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Thankful I read this book

By Tessa Rivers on November 1, 2013

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I'm really glad I gave this book a chance. I really liked the Time Machine so I figured I'd give Wells another shot.

It was a great idea. Prendick was a great narrator, and I'm not quite sure I would have made it out of Moreau's island very sane. The characters are creepy, the story is absolutely horrifying, and it was a gripping, page-turner until the very end.

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Good books for kids

By Jes on December 31, 2012

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I've never read this story before and I've always heard a lot about it. Here we meet a doctor with the best intentions for all those around him. However, we see that best intentions don't justify the actions. Here we meet a man who ends up by no choice of his own on the 'Island of Dr. Moreau'. We see his journey of seeing something and not understanding it. Like many people he see's something small and thinks something completely different going on that what is. It doesn't make it right. We see his journey to come to an understanding of what he saw. We also see what happens when you do something for what you 'perceive' as the 'right thing' shouldn't really be done.

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Great Story!

By Lynn Ellingwood VINE VOICE on October 16, 2013

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Interesting horror/ science fiction story of a man Edward Prendeck who survives a shipwreck only to end up on an island where a famous biologist Dr. Moreau has been living. He has been using surgical vivisection to create man-animals with the help of the man who rescued him, Montgomery. Of course Edward would prefer not to get surgical work done himself. Nice story and I really enjoyed it.

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Wells involves the readers in this exploration as we have our own responses to the continual achingly painful cries of the puma

By Joanna Poppink on July 16, 2015

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What does it mean to be human?

Wells involves the readers in this exploration as we have our own responses to the continual achingly painful cries of the puma that permeate Prendick's early weeks on the island. Prendick walks away from the compound to escape the sound of the pain of vivisection, sanctioned at the time in society, and, despite his discomfort, sanctioned by Prendick.

Yet, in the dinghy after the sinking of the Lady Vain, Prendick and the two sailors consider cannibalism to survive. They are seriously approaching a socially prohibited act in a civilized way by drawing lots. But rule of law is flouted when the stronger man is selected as victim and repels the others. The strongest and fittest prevails based on individual self interest under extreme duress.

Throughout the book sympathy and altruist behavior are undermined and collapse under the duress of survival issues. The exception is the dog who is killed by Prendick's enemy, the hyena swine. The dog remained loyal and risked its life defending its master.

Is the human ability to be loyal, compassionate, brave and communal, only possible when social order is strong and survival is assured? Is it only intrinsic in a beast, like the dog? Or does the dog too seek social order and security by prevailing on Prendick to become his Master? Is it acceptable to be brutal and cannibalistic for the benefit of the majority if the action is couched in socially acceptable terms?

Wells asks us to think about the power of our legal, religious and ethical principles by which we live or try to live. Will those laws collapse when we are faced with catastrophic circumstances?Read more ›

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A Classic Thriller

By Gerald D. Matzke on November 7, 2014

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The imagination of H. G. Wells amazes me whenever I read his stories. This one delves into the soul of mankind and suggests that apart from our dependence upon a higher power that established for us some kind of law and order in our lives we would resort to the worst in our human nature. We survive because we have hope. While religion is not mentioned, this describes the nature of a relationship with God. Sinful human nature needs the law of God to establish order and when the law is ignored, society degenerates to lawlessness and selfishness and greed take over. Hope for a renewed relationship with the Creator sustains us and we find that in Jesus Christ.

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probably buy another version of this

By Cia_Splinter on September 18, 2014

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this version mispelled the protagonist's name on the back cover. it was really weird and low-budget, like those free books they give away at churches in the city. like some dude with a laminating machine woke up one day and was like "you know what i'm gonna do? i'm gonna print 5000 copies of The Island of Doctor Moreau and sell them on amazon, because the copyright has expired and i won't get sued because H. G. Wells is probably dead."
yeah, that's probably what happened.

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I felt like a lot of information was missing

Book didn't have a solid beginnning or ending. Left the reader wondering how this all came about. I felt like a lot of information was missing.

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