Fiction · 1896
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Shipwrecked and picked up in the Pacific, Edward Prendick is put ashore on an island where a disgraced physiologist is remaking animals into something like men. The Beast Folk keep a Law they recite aloud, and the Law is the only thing standing between them and what they were.
H. G. Wells published the novel in 1896, at the height of the English argument over vivisection, and it was attacked at the time for its cruelty. It has been read since as one of the first modern arguments about what may be done to living things — and, in its last chapters, about how thin the difference is between the creature that keeps the Law and the man who made it.
The story is framed by a note from Prendick’s nephew, and it closes with the narrator back in London, unable to look at a crowd without seeing the island.
Contents
- Introduction
- I — n the Dingey of the “Lady Vain.”
- II — The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
- III — The Strange Face
- IV — At the Schooner’s Rail
- V — The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go
- VI — The Evil-Looking Boatmen
- VII — The Locked Door
- VIII — The Crying of the Puma
- IX — The Thing in the Forest
- X — The Crying of the Man
- XI — The Hunting of the Man
- XII — The Sayers of the Law
- XIII — A Parley
- XIV — Doctor Moreau Explains
- XV — Concerning the Beast Folk
- XVI — How the Beast Folk Taste Blood
- XVII — A Catastrophe
- XVIII — The Finding of Moreau
- XIX — Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday.”
- XX — Alone with the Beast Folk
- XXI — The Reversion of the Beast Folk
- XXII — The Man Alone
- Note
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