The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

• Publisher: Pandora's Box Classics
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9789897781797
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

H. G. Wells's science fiction classic: the dark and captivating story of one man's fight for survival against the lab-made nightmares of a mad scientistShipwrecked and abandoned, Edward Prendick cautiously steps ashore a remote island in the Pacific. Though wary, Prendick is unaware of the horrors that await him here. But what appears at first to be a typical volcanic island slowly reveals itself to be the macabre workshop of maligned London physiologist Dr. Moreau. Moreau's genius had been celebrated far and wide until the true nature of his work was exposed. Now secluded on his island, Moreau engages unimpeded in gruesome experiments of vivisection, splicing animal and man together in a terrifying display of his dominion over nature. When Prendick realizes he's slated to be the next subject on Moreau's grisly surgical table, he flees to the jungle—where all manner of unnatural creatures abound...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Chapter 1 — In the Dingey of the “Lady Vain”
• Chapter 2 — The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
• Chapter 3 — The Strange Face
• Chapter 4 — At the Schooner’s Rail
• Chapter 5 — The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go
• Chapter 6 — The Evil-Looking Boatmen
• Chapter 7 — “The Locked Door”
• Chapter 8 — The Crying of the Puma
• Chapter 9 — The Thing in the Forest
• Chapter 10 — The Crying of the Man
• Chapter 11 — The Hunting of the Man
• Chapter 12 — The Sayers of the Law
• Chapter 13 — A Parley
• Chapter 14 — Doctor Moreau Explains
• Chapter 15 — Concerning the Beast Folk
• Chapter 16 — How the Beast Folk Taste Blood
• Chapter 17 — A Catastrophe
• Chapter 18 — The Finding of Moreau
• Chapter 19 — Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday”
• Chapter 20 — Alone with the Beast Folk
• Chapter 21 — The Reversion of the Beast Folk
• Chapter 22 — The Man Alone