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BOOK MARK.(Book Review)

Byline: DAVID SEXTON

BOOK MARK

The Island of Dr Moreau

by HG Wells (Penguin, [pounds sterling]6.95)

"A WRITER for whom I have the deepest admiration is H G Wells, especially his romances: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Country of the Blind, The War of the Worlds, and the moon fantasia, The First Men in the Moon ..." So said Vladimir Nabokov. To cause maximum offence, he liked to add that "all these stories are far better than anything Bennett, or Conrad, or, in fact, any of Wells's contemporaries would produce".

Penguin Classics has just released 10 of Wells's best stories in new editions, with bright covers and enterprising prefaces, in ...

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