The Island of Doctor Moreau. Герберт Уэллс

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      Source ISBN: 9780008190057

      Ebook Edition © January 2017 ISBN: 9780008190064

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

History of William Collins

Life & Times

Introduction

1. In the Dinghy of the Lady Vain

2. The Man Who Was Going Nowhere

3. The Strange Face

4. At the Schooner’s Rail

5. The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go

6. The Evil-Looking Boatmen

7. The Locked Door

8. The Crying of the Puma

9. The Thing in the Forest

       10. The Crying of the Man

       11. The Hunting of the Man

       12. The Sayers of the Law

       13. A Parley

       14. Doctor Moreau Explains

       15. Concerning the Beast Folk

       16. How the Beast Folk Taste Blood

       17. A Catastrophe

       18. The Finding of Moreau

       19. Montgomery’s ‘Bank Holiday’

       20. Alone with the Beast Folk

       21. The Reversion of the Beast Folk

       22. The Man Alone

       Footnotes

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases

       About the Publisher