The Island of Dr. Moreau

ARE WE NOT MEN? Edward Prendick survives a shipwreck and winds up on a remote Pacific island where a mad scientist is vivisecting animals to create hybrid beast people. Will Prendick survive and recover from the horrors he has seen? Will anyone believe him? In this classic early science-fiction novel H.G. Wells exposes the anxieties of the Victorian Age: fearing the implications of evolutionary theory disturbed by the godlike power of science over nature & doubtful about the inevitability of human progress. Might humans be capable of degeneration? The Island of Dr. Moreau raises vital questions about bioethics animal rights & the nature of humanity. Published by Spruce Alley Press