The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an 'usher,' or student teacher. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager.

Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s adventures on Dr. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells