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Time Machine. The Island of Doctor Moreau

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Time Machine. The Island of Doctor Moreau
5.99 €
"The Time Machine" (1895) and "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1896), the first and third novels by English science fiction writer Herbert Wells, were early experiments in the author's "attack on human complacency" and classics of "warning literature." Traveling 800,000 years into the future, the Time Traveler finds himself face to face with beings in whom his fellow tribesmen are only vaguely discernible: Humanity's social stratification has turned biological by 802701, and the estranged descendants of the ruling class - the pampered, refined, weak Eloi - live in dangerous proximity to the degraded descendants of the proletarians - predatory morlock monsters who dwell underground, in a world full of all manner of machinery but devoid of light... Charles Edward Prendick, who miraculously survived a shipwreck, finds himself on a small Pacific island, where he witnesses the sinister vivisection experiments of the brilliant and insane Dr. Moreau, obsessed with the illusion of his omnipotence and daringly transgressing the laws of nature....
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