Time Machine. Island of Doctor Moreau

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The Time Machine (1895) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) - the first and third novels of the English science fiction writer HG Wells - were early attempts at the author's "attack on human complacency" and classics of "warning literature". Having moved forward 800 thousand years, the Time Traveler finds himself face to face with creatures in which his fellow tribesmen are only vaguely guessed: by 802701, the social stratification of mankind turned into a biological one, and the distant descendants of the ruling class - pampered, refined, weak Eloi - live in dangerous neighborhood with the degraded descendants of the proletarians - predatory Morlock monsters that live underground, in a world full of all kinds of mechanisms, but devoid of light ... Charles Edward Prendick, who miraculously survived a shipwreck, finds himself on a small Pacific island, where he witnesses ominous vivisector experiments of the ingenious and insane Dr. Moreau, obsessed with the illusion of his omnipotence and boldly transgressing the laws of nature ...

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Publication language: Russian

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