Alma Books The Island of Dr Moreau Уэллс Герберт Джордж

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story • They say that terror is a disease • A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments of the infamous Doctor Moreau will reach their inevitable conclusion

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a fascinating exploration of what it is to be human. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Patrick Parrinder with notes by Steven McLean and an introduction by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale • Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells • 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind' • Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionist driven out of Britain in disgrace. And soon strange events cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr Moreau's activities on the island • The Island Of Doctor Moreau mixes discussion on the divide between humans and the animal kingdom and chilling macabre horror in an unrivalled fashion. Its question on how far science should go is one that rings true today as it did when it was first published

"Остров доктора Моро" - известный фантастический роман Герберта Уэллса о гениальном ученом докторе Моро, пытавшемся нарушить законы природы и сотворить из диких животных людей. Полученные в результате его бесчеловечных опытов существа обладали способностью к мышлению и даром речи, но людьми так и не стали. Звериные инстинкты оказались сильнее… • Книга на английском языке • In HG Wells's disturbing evolutionary tale, Edward Prendrick is the shipwrecked naturalist who finds himself stranded on the island of a mad scientist, inhabited by hybrid beast-human creatures as the results of Dr Moreau's experiments

Один из самых известных научно-фантастических романов в истории! Рассказчик Эдвард Прендик терпит кораблекрушение и попадает на остров, которым безраздельно властвует безумный учёный, доктор Моро. В ходе бесчеловечных и богопротивных экспериментов он создал множество противоестественных гибридов людей и животных. "Остров доктора Моро" - история о непомерной гордыне учёных и важности подчинения науки нравственным принципам, которую читает, затаив дыхание, уже не одно поколение • Книга может похвастаться большим количеством экранизаций, включая фильм "Остров потерянных душ" и несколько одноимённых кинокартин • Книга на английском языке • In one of the most famous novels of science fiction, the shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself alone on an island with a mad scientist

"After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them himself and understand everything they said" • John Dolittle is a highly respected doctor in the village of Puddleby on the Marsh, yet he loves animals so much that his house is soon full of them. With all his patients scared away, and the expense of feeding his menagerie mounting, a friend suggests that the Doctor become a vet instead • With the help of Polynesia the parrot, Doctor Dolittle swiftly learns the language of the animals so that he can talk to all of his new patients. However, when a message comes from Africa, telling of a terrible sickness among the monkeys there, the Doctor and his animal friends depart on a thrilling and dangerous adventure that they are never likely to forget

Учебное пособие для изучения английского языка методом параллельных текстов. «Параллельные тексты» являются составной частью природосообразной модели обучения, разработанной психологом Алексеем Кушниром. Принципиальное отличие этой модели в том, что в её основе лежит не лингвистика, а закономерности психофизиологии — механизмы работы мозга, психики, личности. Человек осваивает что бы то ни было благодаря именно этим механизмам, а не сообразно предметной парадигме математики, географии или лингвистики. Именно поэтому переход на природосообразные алгоритмы обучения позволяет значительно увеличить эффективность учебного процесса. Пособие предназначено для использования в учебном процессе, а также для самообразования

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a bright new future - after he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a life of heroism, hope and ultimate happiness

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he gets into with his friend Huckleberry Finn range from innocent japes to more serious events such as the witnessing of a murder • One of the most popular and influential American novels, Mark Twain's masterpiece is at the same time a highly entertaining romp which celebrates youth and freedom and a more profound investigation of his times, touching on themes such as race, revenge and slavery. This volume includes Tom Sawyer, Detective, a sequel and pastiche of the detective genre, first published in 1896