With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature
and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University'Each time I dip a living
creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out
all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!'
declares Doctor Moreau to hapless narrator Edward Prendick. Moreau's
highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious,
moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island
of Doctor Moreau 'a youthful exercise in blasphemy'. Today his vivid
depictions of the Beast People still strike modern readers with an
uncanny glimpse of the animal in the human, while the behaviour of
humans leave us wondering who is the most monstrous after all.
This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of
the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings.
The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet
chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters. The
Empire of the Ants is a darkly humorous account of intelligent Amazonian
ants threatening to displace humans as 'the lords of the future and
masters of the earth'.
In The Sea Raiders, the south coast of
England is terrorized by an unwelcome visit from deep-sea predator
Haploteuthis ferox, while AEpyornis Island provides a marooned egg
collector with an unusual companion.
The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories - H.G. Wells
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