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The island of Doctor Moreau / H. G. Wells ; edited with an introduction by Darryl Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, H. G., author.
- Series:
- Oxford World's Classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick discovers Moreau is performing horrific experiments, using vivisection to craft animals into human beings.
- Contents:
- Cover
- OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS H. G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau
- COPYRIGHT
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Life and Letters
- Critical Studies
- Science, Medicine and Beast-Men
- A CHRONOLOGY OF H. G. WELLS
- THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
- Contets
- Introduction
- Chapter I: In the Dingey of the Lady Vain
- Chapter II: The Man Who was Going Nowhere
- Chapter III: The Strange Face
- Chapter IV: At the Schooner's Rail
- Chapter V: The Man Who had Nowhere to Go*
- Chapter VI: The Evil-Looking Boatmen
- Chapter VII: The Locked Door
- Chapter VIII: The Crying of the Puma
- Chapter IX: The Thing in the Forest
- Chapter X: The Crying of the Man
- Chapter XI: The Hunting of the Man
- Chapter XII: The Sayers of the Law
- Chapter XIII: A Parley
- Chapter XIV: Doctor Moreau Explains
- Chapter XV: Concerning the Beast Folk
- Chapter XVI: How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood
- Chapter XVII: A Catastrophe
- Chapter XVIII: The Finding of Moreau
- Chapter XIX: Montgomery's 'bank holiday'
- Chapter XX: Alone with the Beast Folk
- Chapter XXI: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
- Chapter XXII: The Man Alone
- EXPLANATORY NOTES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- More About: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
- A SELECTION OF: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
- Trollope in OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
- A SELECTION OF: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191007194
- 0191007196
- 9780191956966
- 0191956961
- 9780191007187
- 0191007188
- OCLC:
- 1119636112
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