The Island of Doctor MoreauA 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 |
OXFORD WORLDS CLASSICS | 127 |
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 |
OXFORD WORLDS CLASSICS | 128 |
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Trollope in OXFORD WORLDS CLASSICS | 131 |
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