Authors: H. G. Wells, Alan Lightman
ISBN-13: 9780553214321, ISBN-10: 0553214322
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: May 1994
Edition: Reprint
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe," H. G. Wells once said. Widely revered as the father of science fiction, the English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian penned ominous -- and educated -- glimpses at humanity's possible future, including The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
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.
Philmus's variorum edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau is a shining example of the quality of work that can and should be done in the [science-fiction] field.
1 | In the Dinghy of the Lady Vain | 1 |
2 | The Man who was going Nowhere | 5 |
3 | The Strange Face | 9 |
4 | At the Schooner's Rail | 17 |
5 | The Landing on the Island | 21 |
6 | The Evil-looking Boatmen | 27 |
7 | The Locked Door | 33 |
8 | The Crying of the Puma | 39 |
9 | The Thing in the Forest | 43 |
10 | The Crying of the Man | 55 |
11 | The Hunting of the Man | 61 |
12 | The Sayers of the Law | 69 |
13 | A Parley | 79 |
14 | Doctor Moreau Explains | 85 |
15 | Concerning the Beast Folk | 99 |
16 | How the Beast Folk tasted Blood | 107 |
17 | A Catastrophe | 123 |
18 | The Finding of Moreau | 129 |
19 | Montgomery's "Bank Holiday" | 135 |
20 | Alone with the Beast Folk | 145 |
21 | The Reversion of the Beast Folk | 153 |
22 | The Man Alone | 167 |