A misshapen humanoid creature is lying on the table, covered in blood. Moreau, who is conducting strange experiments in his locked laboratory.Īroused by screaming in the middle of the night, Edward bursts into Moreau’s operating room. Edward learns that the island is the home of the eccentric surgeon Dr. Montgomery proceeds to take him to a jungle island in the middle of the ocean, warning him not to leave the gated compound at the island’s center. He is rescued by a mysterious ship carrying a cargo of exotic animals, and saved from illness by the enigmatic Dr. The narrator, Edward Prendick, is shipwrecked at sea and cast adrift. (Note: In order to discuss this novel’s underlying themes, the following review contains spoilers.) Moreau.” Surprisingly, this dark tale of scientific curiosity gone awry is one of the most compelling and thought-provoking novels I’ve read in quite some time. Up until this past week, my experience with Wells’ work was limited to his more popular titles – I’d never read his lesser-known work “The Island of Dr. Wells is perhaps best known as the author of the science-fiction classics “The War of the Worlds” and “The Time Machine.” Like his later counterpart Michael Crichton, Wells envisioned fantastical technology run amok, leading to widespread devastation and catastrophe.
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