H. G. Wells

Broschiertes Buch

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Darryl Jones has 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 Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Arnold/OUP 2002), It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford World's Classics, M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories (OUP, 2011, 2013).

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780198702665
• ISBN-10: 0198702663
• Artikelnr.: 46863404