Sequoia Book Publishers

The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Restored & Annotated Edition

by H. G. Wells

Shipwrecked and rescued by a passing vessel, Edward Prendick is set ashore on a remote island where a disgraced surgeon continues work that London would not permit him to finish. What Prendick finds there — creatures that walk upright, speak, and recite a Law they cannot keep — forces a question Victorian science was not prepared to answer: what exactly separates a man from an animal, and how much of it can be cut away? H. G. Wells's 1896 novel remains the most disturbing of his scientific romances, a short, ferocious book about vivisection, evolution, and the cruelty of a creator. This Sequoia restored and annotated edition presents the complete original text with notes on the vivisection debates that scandalized Wells's readers, the Darwinian science behind the novel, and the literary legacy it set in motion.

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