'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They
were animals, humanised animals...' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick
finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a
notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. Disturbed by the cries of
animals in pain, and by his encounters with half-bestial creatures,
Edward slowly realises his danger and the extremes of the Doctor's
experiments. Saturated in pain and disgust, suffused with grotesque
and often unbearable images of torture and bodily mutilation, The
Island of Doctor Moreau is unquestionably a shocking novel. It is
also a serious, and highly knowledgeable, philosophical engagement
with Wells's times, with their climate of scientific openness and
advancement, but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of
scientific discoveries, and their implications for religion. Darryl
Jones's introduction places the book in both its scientific and
literary context; with the Origin of Species and Gulliver's
Travels, and argues that The Island of Doctor Moreau is, like all
of Wells's best fiction, is fundamentally a novel of ideas
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