num_pages: 172
description: A shipwreck in the South Seas takes us to a palm-tree paradise where a mad sciencist -- the depraved Dr. Moreau -- conducts vile experiments, unspeakable animal experiments with hideous, humanlike results. Edward Prendick, an Englishman whose misfortunes bring him to the island, is witness to the Beast Folk's strange civilization and their eventual terrifying regression. It's the stuff of high adventure; it's also a tale about evolution -- and a satire that plays deliberately in the vein Jonathan Swift mined in Gulliver's Travels. It's also a bloody tale of horror. Wells himself was frank about it: "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation."
language: English
title: The Island of Dr. Moreau
titlecomplete: The Island of Dr. Moreau
characters: Edward Prendick, Dr. Moreau, Dr. Montgomery
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 117101
awards: awardedAt: 1577865600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Illustrated or Art Book
publisher: Wildside Pr