By H. G. Wells, Margaret Atwood
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the only survivor from the great send girl useless, is rescued by way of a vessel sporting a profoundly strange shipment a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to restoration by way of their keeper Montgomery, who provides him darkish drugs that tastes of blood, Prendick quickly reveals himself stranded upon an uncharted island within the Pacific along with his rescuer and the beasts. right here, he meets Montgomery's grasp, the sinister Dr. Moreau an excellent scientist whose infamous experiments in vivisection have prompted him to desert the civilised global. It quickly turns into transparent he has been constructing those experiments with actually terrible results.
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The fool, he had scorned the final warning, scoffed at it. And there might not be another . . For the rest of the night she lay there just staring up at the ceiling, watching the latticed square of moonlight pale until finally it was replaced by the cold grey light of a mountain winter dawn. That scream—she could still hear it like a catchy tune that persistently sticks in the brain. She heard it again and again, a long-drawn-out cry of agony, the embodiment of every fear known to man or beast, the ultimate in terror.
Subsidence created potholes and cracked tarmacadam as though it was a subtle manoeuvre to return to its former surface of mud and stones. One shop, so insignificant among the grey stone cottages that it seemed to be trying to hide from strangers, and a church that would be undergoing structural repairs if ever the twenty-year-old restoration fund realised sufficient money. ' The Cat, tike everything else in Woodside had rejected progress. Picturesque inside and out it could have commanded trade from afar but Eli Lewis, its publican, was determined that that should not happen.
Peter watched them go, typical examples of motorbike hooligans. Hodre or Perrycroft—it was just the same. ' Janie was doing her best to scold Gavin but the impact of her remonstration was tempered by relief. She was trying hard not to cry. ' Gavin was trembling. 'Something's happened to him, I know it has. He's somewhere in thereV A shaking forefinger pointed to the forest. Even the morning sunlight could not dispel its aura of foreboding, its silent warning. ' Peter clutched at his shoulder and winced.
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