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H.G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau, a Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices.
Utopian Studies
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January 1, 1997|
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COPYRIGHT 1997 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
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Leon Stover, ed., H.G. Wells. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996. x + 289 pp. $55.00.
"H.G. Wells," writes Leon Stover, "is the most instructive writer in the history of the ideological left because he was the most candid. He fooled neither his readers nor himself with the usual compassion babble: `the Rights of Man, Human Equality, and the rest'" (Doctor Moreau, 209). In Stover's assessment, Wells throughout most of his life was a plain-speaking advocate of totalitarianism, a statist who eagerly awaited the global catastrophe that would destroy civilization as we know it ...
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