The Island of Doctor Moreau [Paperback]

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 realizes 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 Moreauis 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 theOrigin of SpeciesandGulliver's Travels, and argues thatThe Island of Doctor Moreauis, like all of Wells's best fiction, is fundamentally a novel of ideas.

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of H. G. Wells

THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

Explanatory Notes

Darryl Joneshas taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1994. Prior to this he taught in the University of Lodz, Poland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Transylvania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of nine books, includingHorror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film(Arnold/OUP 2002),It Came From the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties(with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford World's Classics, M. R. James,Collected Ghost Stories(OUP, 2011, 2013).