With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in
Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I
dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this
time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a
rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Moreau to hapless
narrator Edward Prendick. Moreau's highly controversial methods and
ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms
of his day and Wells later called The Island of Doctor Moreau 'a
youthful exercise in blasphemy'. Today his vivid depictions of the
Beast People still strike modern readers with an uncanny glimpse of
the animal in the human, while the behaviour of humans leave us
wondering who is the most monstrous after all. This volume unites
four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange
evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The
Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet
chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters. The
Empire of the Ants is a darkly humorous account of intelligent
Amazonian ants threatening to displace humans as 'the lords of the
future and masters of the earth'. In The Sea Raiders, the south
coast of England is terrorized by an unwelcome visit from deep-sea
predator Haploteuthis ferox, while AEpyornis Island provides a
marooned egg collector with an unusual companion.
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