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The Time Machine: The Island of Doctor Moreau – Wells Herbert – ABC – 2023 – ISBN 978-5-389-14857-4

The Time Machine: The Island of Doctor Moreau
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The Time Machine (1895) and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), the first and third novels by the English science fiction writer H.G. Wells, were early attempts at the author's "attack on human complacency" and classics of "warning literature." Having moved 800 thousand years forward, the Time Traveller finds himself face to face with creatures that are only vaguely recognizable as his fellow tribesmen: by the year 802701, the social stratification of humanity has become biological, and the distant descendants of the ruling class – the pampered, refined, weak Eloi – live in dangerous proximity to the degraded descendants of the proletarians – the predatory Morlock monsters, who dwell underground, in a world full of all kinds of mechanisms, but devoid of light... Charles Edward Prendick, who miraculously survived a shipwreck, ends up on a small Pacific island, where he witnesses the sinister vivisection experiments of the brilliant and mad Doctor Moreau, obsessed with the illusion of his omnipotence and boldly transgressing the laws of nature...
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