The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices (Annotated H. G. Wells)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 078646870X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 301 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Libraries should at least stock up on a few extra budget paperback copies of Doctor Moreau to meet demand generated by a forthcoming film remake starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Though these editions are pricey, Wells's works deserve serious consideration. These "critical text" editions contain the full text plus annotations, indexes, appendixes, and bibliographies. . From Library Journal Two of Wells's sf masterpieces get the red carpet treatment here
The work's biological and sociopolitical ideas are still current (such were the range and depth of Wells' ideas). Wells continued to work on Doctor Moreau for nearly thirty years after its initial publication in London (the New York first edition added a subtitle A Possibility), finally letting go of the work after the publication of the Atlantic Edition in 1924. Annotated by the premier Wellsian scholar, this is an exhaustive critical edition, examining the historical, medical, philosophical and literary contexts of the story.. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote some of the great classics of speculative fiction in English, incl
marcabru said excellent annotated series of hg wells' SF works. This is an excellent critical edition of the initial edition of the Island of Dr Moreau by Leon Stover. Most reprints of this and other of Wells' SF novels typically use later revisions. Stover argues effectively for the greater artistic merit of the initial editions. It is part of a series of extensively annotated editions of Wells' science fiction. The editor also has a lengthy introduction which discusses the context and ideas permeating each novel. Stover makes good use of previous studies w
He lived in Chicago. The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history.