A story of enormous inventiveness, underlying social vision, and bizarre imaginings, The Island of Doctor Moreau is evidence of H. G. Wells romantic conceptions of the scientific world.
After various twists of fate, Edward Prendick finds himself as the single survivor of the good ship Lady Vain. Adrift in a dinghy, he is rescued by a vessel carrying unusual cargo: a menagerie of savage animals. Montgomery, the keeper of the animals, brings Prendick to the island of Dr. Moreau, the famous mad surgeon-turned-vivisectionist from back home in England. As time passes, Prendick encounters the humans on the island—humans with a strange, eerie likeness to wild beasts an animals, who are governed by the law of Dr. Moreau. But when they begin to break the rules, the island turns unsafe for everyone, and even the man playing God loses control.  
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