Hybridity or Flummery?

I took yesterday off, given the blanket of snow everywhere. I opened and completed two books in the course of a lovely day: The island of Doctor Moreau and Time's Daughter by Josephine Tey. I was supposed to have read the latter in Frank Thackeray's European History seminar in 1989. I don't believe that I completed it. Were any other of Frank's students assigned this engaging albeit queer choice for a survey course? I enjoyed it immensely whereas the Wells sort of hung there inchoate. Today unveiled a thaw of sorts and I was allowed to accompany Dantes upon his escape; his vengeance quickly follows.