H. G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

A Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

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Produktbeschreibung

H.G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote some of the great classics of speculative fiction in English, including The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), which might be said to be about unholy genetics. The work's biological and sociopolitical ideas are still current (such were the range and depth of Wells' ideas). Wells continued to work on Doctor Moreau for nearly thirty years after its initial publication in London (the New York first edition added a subtitle A Possibility), finally letting go of the work after the publication of the Atlantic Edition in 1924. Annotated by the premier Wellsian scholar, this is an exhaustive critical edition, examining the historical, medical, philosophical and literary contexts of the story.

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Produktdetails

• The Annotated H.G. Wells Nr.2
• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780786468706
• ISBN-10: 078646870X
• Artikelnr.: 35937723

Autorenporträt

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction     
1. The Text     
2. Nature and Nurture     
3. Noble's Isle     
4. Chance, Waste, and Pain     
5. Chronolatry     
6. The Sphinx of Sin     
7. Pig Philosophy     
8. Vivisection Morality     
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)     
(Annotated text of the first London edition)     
Epilogue: The Coming Terror     
Appendices
I. a. "The Province of Pain" (1894)     
b. Excerpt from Text-Book of Biology (1893, Part I-Vertebrata)     
II. "The Limits of Individual Plasticity" (1895c)     
III. a. "Human Evolution, An Artificial Process" (1896c)     
b. "Mr. Wells Replies" (1897b)     
c. "The Acquired Factor" (1897a)     
IV. a. "The Influence of Islands on Variation" (1895e)     
b. "To the Editor of the Saturday Review" (1896d)     
V. "Morals and Civilisation" (1897c)     
VI. Excerpt from Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science (1883)     
Bibliography     
Index