num_pages: 224
description: Wells, personalidad ecléctica y nada inmovilista, que tan pronto se entusiasmaba por una idea o una persona como todo lo contrario; amigo de Henry James, de Conrad o de Crane; pacifista y partidario del desarme, socialista utópico y viajero infatigable, publicó en 1896 este «grotesco teológico», por utilizar sus propias palabras. Quizá en ninguna otra obra anida una sátira tan amarga y despiadada como en ésta. Al dibujar los humanimales de la isla, tan increíbles como psicológicamente verosímiles, Wells hizo una cruel comparación con las leyes y los principios morales de su tiempo, una comparación de la que los seres humanos no saldrían precisamente bien parados.A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before -- it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. As H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La isla del Dr. Moreau
titlecomplete: La isla del Dr. Moreau
characters: Dr. Moreau, Dr. Montgomery, Edward Prendick
genres: Audiobook, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 117023
awards: awardedAt: 1577865600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Illustrated or Art Book
publisher: Anaya