Also published as: The Island of Dr. Moreau

Author: H. G. Wells Year: 1896 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Free books, Read online, Science fiction Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Goodreads Amazon OpenLibrary Google Books eBooks.com Wikipedia Project Gutenberg Standard eBooks LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780141389394 9780141441023 0141389397 014144102X

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read. Similar books: Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells When The Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells Tales of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters The Scarlet Plague by Jack London News from Nowhere by William Morris Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells Bealby by H. G. Wells The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells You Can't Be Too Careful by H. G. Wells Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury