The Island of Dr. Moreau

by Wells, H. G.

• ISBN13: 9780486290270
• ISBN10: 0486290271
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-12
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Enormously inventive tale about a mad surgeon-turned-vivisectionist on a remote island who performs ghoulish experiments that transform animals into men. It is one of Wells' earliest and most sinister personifications of the scientific quest to control and manipulate the natural world, and, ultimately, human nature itself.

Author Biography

A pioneer of science fiction, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote thrilling adventures about time travel, space exploration, alien invasion, and scientific experiments gone awry. His tales of obsession, revelation, and discovery remain compellingly readable and relevant.

Table of Contents

I. In the Dingey of the "Lady Vain"	1	(2)
II. The Man who was going Nowhere	3	(3)
III. The Strange Face	6	(4)
IV. At the Schooner's Rail	10	(3)
V. The Landing on the Island	13	(3)
VI. The Evil-looking Boatmen	16	(4)
VII. The Locked Door	20	(4)
VIII. The Crying of the Puma	24	(2)
IX. The Thing in the Forest	26	(8)
X. The Crying of the Man	34	(3)
XI. The Hunting of the Man	37	(4)
XII. The Sayers of the Law	41	(6)
XIII. A Parley	47	(4)
XIV. Dr. Moreau Explains	51	(9)
XV. Concerning the Beast Folk	60	(4)
XVI. How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood	64	(11)
XVII. A Catastrophe	75	(4)
XVIII. The Finding of Moreau	79	(3)
XIX. Montgomery's "Bank Holiday"	82	(6)
XX. Alone with the Beast Folk	88	(4)
XXI. The Reversion of the Beast Folk	92	(9)
XXII. The Man Alone	101