Name: The Island of Doctor Moreau
Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9781514677513

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

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Author Description

ethical responsibility, evolution, and man's interference with the course of nature.The novel begins when Edward Prendick, an educated gentleman is shipwrecked in the middle of nowhere, and is taken aboard a passing ship where he is revived by a man later introduced as Montgomery. The man explains to Prendick that he is headed to a private island where he works, along with the animals on the ship. While on board, Prendick also meets a gruesome brute by the name of M'ling, whom he believes to be Montgomery's manservant. When Montgomery reaches his destination he initially refuses to accommodate Prendick after the captain demands he leave the ship, but later takes pity on his bleak circumstance and agrees to put him up. The protagonist is subsequently introduced to the cold and intense Dr. Moreau, whom Prendick recognizes as a former distinguished physiologist in London, whose horrific experiments in vivisection had been publicly exposed. The Island of Dr. Moreau brilliantly intrigues readers with its generous serving of ingenuity, abominable imagery and chilling hypothesis of the possible dangers of scientific progression. A literary classic, the novel imposes many ethical questions still relevant to modern society, and certain to provoke reaction.

Page Count:
84

Publication Date:
2015-06-24

Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN-10:
1514677512

ISBN-13:
9781514677513