H.g. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Publisher s24148
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782378984250
• Artikelnr.: 50908136

Autorenporträt

H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T. H. Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with THE TIME MACHINE (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.

Rezensionen

A lurid Darwinian nightmare...pushes unnervingly at the boundaries of what it is to be human and still reads as freshly as when it was first published. Evening Standard