Making Humans: Frankenstein and the Island of Dr. Moreau

By H.G. Wells and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In pairing these two famous gothic science fiction novels for the first time, this volume provides a rare opportunity to explore numerous topics common to both texts, such as the nature of the human... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618084894
• ISBN13: 9780618084890
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A handy way to package two classic stories of human hubris

While the title may suggest something about cloning or eugenics, it is really just a handy way for the publisher to package two classic horror novels about humans who "played God" -- cautionary tales that might be appropriate reading for a range of literature-based courses on technology, ethics, science, environmentalism. There isn't much of an introduction here, and so the only thing that would draw you to this text is to read Shelley's Frankenstein and/or Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau. Both exceptional and interesting novels -- though written by authors who had very different aims and outlooks.