Heart and Science a Story of the Present Time

by Wilkie Collins

Book Overview

Collins' novel takes a sharp look at the moral dilemma of sacrificing one's heart for the sake of scientific progress in Victorian England.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1021193712
• ISBN13: 9781021193711
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Legare Street Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Great Read

Collins's book is very interesting--it's the story, by the inventor of the detective novel, of a tall, evil neurologist driven by the frantic pace of science to disect living, screaming animals in his search for a cure for brain disease. And the Broadview edition is excellent--it provides the primary texts of the vivisection debate of the 1870s and 80s, including Francis Power Cobbe's essay and documentation of the court case. Excellent scholarly work made available and accessible to beginners--I've used the novel in a course on Literature and Science with great success.

Steve Farmer presents a strong edition of Heart and Science

Heart and Science is a very interesting novel, both for it's historical connection to late-Victorian anti-vivisectionist movement and for Collins's interesting story. I won't say it is one of his strongest novels but it is quite readable and nicely intriguing.Farmer's edition is quite strong.His notes and appendicies are thorough and extremely useful, as are the introduction, the select bibliography,and the other accompanying material, of which there is plenty.