{"product_id":"the-island-of-doctor-moreau-paperback","title":"The Island of Doctor Moreau - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. G. Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDarryl Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain, and by his encounters with half-bestial creatures, Edward slowly realizes his danger and the extremes of the Doctor's experiments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaturated in pain and disgust, suffused with grotesque and often unbearable images of torture and bodily mutilation, \u003cem\u003eThe Island of Doctor Moreau\u003c\/em\u003e is unquestionably a shocking novel. It is also a serious, and highly knowledgeable, philosophical engagement with Wells's times, with their climate of scientific openness and advancement, but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of scientific discoveries, and their implications for religion. Darryl Jones's introduction places the book in both its scientific and literary context; with the \u003cem\u003eOrigin of Species\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e, and argues that \u003cem\u003eThe Island of Doctor Moreau\u003c\/em\u003e is, like all of Wells's best fiction, is fundamentally a novel of ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDarryl Jones \u003c\/strong\u003ehas taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1994. Prior to this he taught in the University of Lodz, Poland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Transylvania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of nine books, including \u003cem\u003eHorror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film\u003c\/em\u003e (Arnold\/OUP 2002), \u003cem\u003eIt Came From the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties\u003c\/em\u003e (with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford World's Classics, M. R. James, \u003cem\u003eCollected Ghost Stories\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2011, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53032647426381,"sku":"9780198702665","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/NnlmN09jREgrSEZWL3hZL0V1cjFYZz09.webp?v=1766224517","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-island-of-doctor-moreau-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}