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by H.G. Wells
Shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself on a remote island where the brilliant but mad Dr. Moreau conducts horrifying vivisection experiments, surgically transforming animals into human-like beings. Wells's disturbing masterpiece interrogates the boundaries between human and animal, civilization and savagery, exploring Victorian anxieties about evolution and scientific hubris. A pioneering work of science fiction that remains unsettling in its examination of cruelty masked as progress.
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