The Island of Doctor Moreau (Includes biography about the life and times of H.G. Wells)

H.G. Wells novel is include here in electronic form with a biography about the life and times of Wells'.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is about an island where the narrator, Edward Prendick, is shipwrecked on a tropical island and saved by Moreauís helper, Montgomery. Moreau is a vivisectionist shunned by conventional society due to his scientific activities, which includes conducting experiments on animals in order to manipulate and ìimproveî their traits. He has been on the island for eleven years.

The science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau never appeared in serialized form. It was first published as a book in April of 1896 by Heinemann of London and in August of the same year in the United States. The story has been adapted to film five times.

A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896.

H.G. Wells novel is include here in electronic form with a biography about the life and times of Wells'.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is about an island where the narrator, Edward Prendick, is shipwrecked on a tropical island and saved by Moreauís helper, Montgomery. Moreau is a vivisectionist shunned by conventional society due to his scientific activities, which includes conducting experiments on animals in order to manipulate and ìimproveî their traits. He has been on the island for eleven years.

The science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau never appeared in serialized form. It was first published as a book in April of 1896 by Heinemann of London and in August of the same year in the United States. The story has been adapted to film five times.