Island of Dr. Moreau

Contributor(s): Wells, H G (Author)

ISBN: 9780553214321

Publisher: Bantam Classics

$5.95

Pub Date: May 1, 1994

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 97808362

Lexile Code: 0990

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.35" H x 6.96" L x 4.46" W ( 0.18 lbs) 160 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Bantam Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000053482 ( Island of Dr. Moreau)

Reading level: 7.20

Interest level: UG

Point value: 7.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: This new edition of Wells' provocative tale of the corruption of science features an introduction by Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams. A shipwrecked English traveler is stranded on a remote Pacific island, lorded over by a notorious vivisectionist trying to prove that animals can be surgically turned into humans.

Review Quotes: "The Island of Dr. Moreau takes us into an abyss of human nature. This book is a superb piece of storytelling."
--V. S. Pritchett

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