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The Island of Doctor Moreau - A Science Fiction Classic (Complete Edition) - cover

The Island of Doctor Moreau - A Science Fiction Classic (Complete Edition)

H. G. Wells, Silver Deer Classics

Publisher: Oregan Publishing

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Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...
Available since: 01/01/2018.

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