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The Island of Doctor Moreau
First edition cover (UK)
Author
H. G. Wells
Country
United Kingdom
Genre
Science fiction
Published
1896 (Heinemann (UK); Stone & Kimball (US)[1])
Text
The Island of Doctor Moreau at Wikisource
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma.[2] Wells described it as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy."[3]
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction[4] and remains one of Wells's best-known books. The novel is the earliest depiction of the science fiction motif "uplift" in which a more advanced race intervenes in the evolution of an animal species to bring the latter to a higher level of intelligence.[5] It has been adapted to film and other media on many occasions.[6]
^"HGWells".
^Barnes & Noble. "The Island of Doctor Moreau: Original and Unabridged". Barnes & Noble.
^Wells's description of The Island of Dr. Moreau as youthful blasphemy comes from his introduction to The Scientific Romances of H. G. Wells (1933; published in the United States as Seven Famous Novels by H. G. Wells, 1934). This Preface to the Scientific Romances is reprinted as a chapter of editors Patrick Parrinder and Robert M. Philmus's H. G. Wells's Literary Criticism (Sussex: The Harvester Press Limited, and New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1980), see p. 243 for the line quoted.
^See Mason Harris's introduction and notes for the 2009 Broadview Books edition of The Island of Dr. Moreau
^Booker, Keith M. (2014). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 311.
^"How Hollywood fell for a British visionary". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
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