The Island of Doctor Moreau. Герберт Уэллс

      

      THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

      H. G. Wells

       Copyright

      William Collins

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      Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from

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      Source ISBN: 9780008190057

      Ebook Edition © January 2017 ISBN: 9780008190064

      Version: 2017-01-03

      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

       History of William Collins

      In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books, and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William co-published in 1825, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.

      Soon after, William published the first Collins novel; however, it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed, and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.

      Aged 30, William’s son, William II, took over the business. A keen humanitarian with a warm heart and a generous spirit, William II was truly ‘Victorian’ in his outlook. He introduced new, up-to-date steam presses and published affordable editions of Shakespeare’s works and The Pilgrim’s Progress, making them available to the masses for the first time.

      A new demand for educational books meant that success came with the publication of travel books, scientific books, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. This demand to be educated led to the later publication of atlases, and Collins also held the monopoly on scripture writing at the time.

      In