The Island of Doctor Moreau E-Book

H G Wells

• Herausgeber: H. G. Wells
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, who called it "an exercise in youthful blasphemy". The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature.At the time of the novel's publication in 1896, there was growing discussion in Europe regarding degeneration and animal vivisection. Several interest groups were formed to oppose vivisection, the two largest being the National Anti-Vivisection Society in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1898.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

The Book

The Author

Title

Copyright

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Introduction

1 - In the Dingey of the “Lady Vain.”

2 - The Man Who Was Going Nowhere

3 - The Strange Face.

4 - At the Schooner’s Rail.

5 - The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go.

6 - The Evil-Looking Boatmen.

7 - “The Locked Door.”

8 - The Crying of the Puma.

9 - The Thing in the Forest.

10 - The Crying of the Man.

11 - The Hunting of the Man.

12 - The Sayers of the Law.

13 - A parley.

14 - Doctor Moreau Explains.

15 - Concerning the Beast Folk.

16 - How the Beast Folk Taste Blood.

17 - A Catastrophe.

18 - The Finding of Moreau.

19 - Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday.”

20 - Alone with the Beast Folk.

21 - The Reversion of the Beast Folk.

22 - The Man Alone.

Notes

The Book

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, who called it "an exercise in youthful blasphemy". The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature.

At the time of the novel's publication in 1896, there was growing discussion in Europe regarding degeneration and animal vivisection. Several interest groups were formed to oppose vivisection, the two largest being the National Anti-Vivisection Society in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1898.