The Island of Dr. Moreau
A Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Novels book. The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark...
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- Pages: 188 pages
- ISBN: 9781599867151 / 0
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The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes. The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside like some luminous curtain, and at last I looked into the blue gulf of immensity which the sunshine hides, and saw the floating hosts of stars. The sea was silent, the sky was silent. I was alone with the night and silence. H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau // But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die. H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau // An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau //
H.G. Wells truly could see into the future...this book is truly a foreshadowing of some of the bioethical debates going on right now. But the question to my GR friends is: what is more bestial...beasts who must follow 'The Law' or men who put beasts into that position? It seems to me that is a question that still echoes into our age.... The Island of Dr Moreau is well and truly firmly rooted in the Victorian / Edwardian tradition of the scientific / Sci-Fi novel and genre of which Wells was very much one of the key founding fathers. This novel was written against a backdrop (at the time the novel was written) of concern regarding vivisection which amounted in some... This book will always be indelibly associated in my mind with an ailing, bloated Marlon Brandon mumbling through his part as the title character while being followed around by a tiny, identically dressed dwarf. I'm sorry, H.G. Wells, that's just the way it is.This is a pretty good sci-fi horror story, especially considering it's so...
