The Island of Doctor Moreau
By H. G. Wells
Cover: Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!), 1891 by Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) · Wikimedia Commons (National Gallery, London) · Public domain
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. Wells described it as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy."
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Table of contents
- 1: In the Dingey of the “Lady Vain.”
- 2: The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
- 3: The Strange Face
- 4: At the Schooner’s Rail
- 5: The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go
- 6: The Evil-Looking Boatmen
- 7: The Locked Door
- 8: The Crying of the Puma
- 9: The Thing in the Forest
- 10: The Crying of the Man
- 11: The Hunting of the Man
- 12: The Sayers of the Law
- 13: A Parley
- 14: Doctor Moreau Explains
- 15: Concerning the Beast Folk
- 16: How the Beast Folk Taste Blood
- 17: A Catastrophe
- 18: The Finding of Moreau
- 19: Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday.”
- 20: Alone with the Beast Folk
- 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
- 22: The Man Alone