The Island of Dr Moraeu — H G Wells

H G WelIs s science fiction classic the dark and captivating story of one man s fight for survival against the lab made nightmares of a mad scientist Shipwrecked and abandoned Edward Prendick cautiously steps ashore a remote island in the Pacific Though wary Prendick is unaware of the horrors that await him here But what appears at first to be a typical volcanic island slowly reveals itself to be the macabre workshop of maligned London physiologist Dr Moreau When Prendick realizes he s slated to be the next subject on Moreau s grisly surgical table he flees to the jungle where all manner of unnatural creatures abound

Adrift in a dinghy Edward Prendick the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo a menagerie of savage animals Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts Here he meets Montgomery s master the sinister Dr Moreau a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments with truly horrific results The Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War