The Island of Doctor Moreau

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Oxford University Press, 2017 - Fiction - 125 pages
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 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.

 

Contents

Contets
3
Introduction
5
In the Dingey of the Lady Vain
7
The Man Who was Going Nowhere
10
The Strange Face
13
At the Schooners Rail
17
The Man Who had Nowhere to Go
20
The EvilLooking Boatmen
24
The Finding of Moreau
90
Montgomerys bank holiday
94
Alone with the Beast Folk
100
The Reversion of the Beast Folk
105
The Man Alone
115
EXPLANATORY NOTES
119
OXFORD WORLDS CLASSICS
126
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The Locked Door
28
The Crying of the Puma
32
The Thing in the Forest
35
The Crying of the Man
43
The Hunting of the Man
46
The Sayers of the Law
51
A Parley
58
Doctor Moreau Explains
62
Concerning the Beast Folk
71
How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood
76
A Catastrophe
86
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128
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