With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and
Culture at Edinburgh Napier University
'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this
time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature
of my own!' declares Doctor Moreau to hapless narrator Edward Prendick.
Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the
religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The
Island of Doctor Moreau 'a youthful exercise in blasphemy'. Today his vivid
depictions of the Beast People still strike modern readers with an