The Island of Doctor Moreau

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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- HG Wells: a brief chronology -- Note on the text -- Island of Doctor Moreau -- Appendix A: Wells on Wells -- Appendix B: Wells on Moreau and science fiction -- 1: Romance of the Scientist: an interview with Mr HG Wells (1897) / Arthur H Lawrence -- 2: Works of HG Wells, volume 2 (1924) / HG Wells -- 3: Scientific Romances of HG Wells (1933) / HG Wells -- Appendix C: Contemporary reviews -- 1: Saturday Review (11 April 1896) / Chalmers Mitchell -- 2: Saturday review (1 November 1896) /Letter from HG Wells replying to Chalmers Mitchell -- 3: Spectator (11 April 1896) / RH Hutton -- 4: Manchester Guardian (14 April 1896) -- 5: Guardian (3 June 1896) -- 6: Times (17 June 1896) -- 7: Review of Reviews (July-December 1895) -- Appendix D: Evolution and struggle I: Classical Darwinism -- 1: Memoriam (1850) / Alfred Tennyson -- 2: Origin of Species (1859-1872) / Charles Darwin -- 3: Man's Place in Nature (1863) / Thomas H Huxley -- 4: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin -- Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) / Charles Darwin -- 6: Text-Book of Biology (1893) / HG Wells -- 7: Rediscovery of the Unique (1891) / HG Wells -- Mind in Animals / HG Wells -- Appendix E: Evolution and Struggle II: later Huxley and Wells -- 1: Struggle for Existence in Human Society (February 1888) / Thomas H Huxley -- 2: Apologetic Irenicon (November 1892) / Thomas H Huxley -- Evolution and Ethics (1893, 1894) / Thomas H Huxley -- 4: Bio-Optimism (29 August 1895) / HG Wells -- Human Evolution, an Artificial Process (October 1896) / HG Wells -- 6: Acquired Factor (9 January 1897) / HG Wells -- 7: Morals and civilization (February 1897) . HG Wells -- 8: Human Evolution: Mr Wells replies (April1897) / HG Wells -- Appendix F: Degeneration and Madness -- Decent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin -- Problem of the Birth Supply (1903) / FH Wells -- 3: Modern Utopia (1905) / HG Wells -- 4: Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso (1911) / Gina Lombroso-Ferrero -- 5: Crime: Its Causes and Remedies (1899) / Cesare Lombroso -- 6: Psychology: The Briefer Course (1892) / William James -- 7: La Psycholgie Morbide (1859) / Jacques-Joseph Moreau -- 8: Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895,1896) / Gustave Le Bon -- 9: Croquet Player (1936) / HG Wells -- Appendix G: Vivisection Controversy -- 1: Report on the Progress and Development of General Physiology in France (1867) / Claude Bernard -- 2: Claude Bernard (1899) / Michael Foster -- 3: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) / Claude Bernard -- Spectator (1875) / George Hoggan (and RH Hutton), Letter -- 5: Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes (1876) / RH Hutton's Testimony in -- 6: Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes (1876) / Dr Emanuel Klein's Testimony -- 7: Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself (1894) / Frances Power Cobbe -- 8: Test-Book of Biology (1893) / HG Wells -- 9: Popular Feelings and the Advancement of Science Anti-Vivisection (1928) / HG Wells -- Appendix H: Wells Explains: Two Essays Relating to Moreau's -- Argument -- 1: Province of Pain (February 1894) / HG Wells -- 2: Limits of Individual Plasticity (19 January 1895) / HG Wells -- Appendix I: Terrible Medusa Case: an Historical Source for Prendick's Shipwreck (1818) -- Appendix J: Well's First Draft of Moreau -- Select bibliography.
Synopsis: The author of The Time Machine and War of the World conjures up an island where a mad doctor experiments with turning animals into grotesque human-like creatures. The island is discovered by survivors of a South Pacific shipwreck. Read the prescient 1896 story as a social satire and as a foreshadow of science-to-come such as gene-splicing and bioengineering.

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Island of Dr. Moreau submitted by SBNB on August 5, 2014, 7:47pm I read this book when I was a young teenager and I loved it. H.G. Wells has some good books and, in my opinion, this is one of the best.

A Weird, But Interesting Classic submitted by dntanzer on August 31, 2018, 2:43pm I actually really liked this book, which is rare for me when it comes to classic books. The writing is obviously an older style so I'm sure that won't appeal to everybody, but I found the plot and the moral questions posed by the book to be interesting and engaging. It's sometimes suspenseful and even a bit gruesome so keep that in mind too!