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The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
The Island of Doctor MoreauBy H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Category: Classics
After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choice but to flee London.Disquieted and appalled by the pain ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionist driven out of Britain in disgrace. And soon strange events cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr Moreau's activities on the island.THE ISLAND OF DR MORE ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
They say that terror is a disease...A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau (pocket Penguin) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Peng ...Show more
The Sea Raiders : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'. This is one of 46 new ...Show more
The Shape of Things to Come [SF Masterworks] by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.f. Masterworks
When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon) proved prescient in many ways, as Wel ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
A "science fiction story" written in days gone by, sophisticated in a way modern "fantasy novellas" are lacking. The Time Machine by H G Wells is an example of classic fiction first published in 1895 in the United Kingdom. A true book of worth, a classic that lives on in an era of timeless distinction. ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more