Shipwrecked and stranded on a remote island, Edward Prendick discovers he is not alone — and not entirely safe.
Rescued from the sea, Prendick is dropped on an uncharted island run by the reclusive Dr. Moreau, whose grim experiments in vivisection have produced something monstrous: animals surgically and painfully reshaped into half-human Beast Folk, bound by a fragile, ritualized Law to keep their savage natures in check. As the Law begins to crumble and the island's horrors turn on their creator, Prendick is forced to confront just how thin the line between beast and man really is.
H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest and most unflinching science fiction meditations on the ethics of experimentation — a visceral, disturbing classic that still unsettles readers over a century later.
- A founding text of "mad scientist" and bioethics science fiction
- Gripping, grotesque, and morally urgent from first page to last
- Essential Wells, alongside The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
Step onto the island — if you dare find out what Moreau has made.
