The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells’s novel of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked Englishman left on a remote Pacific island where the physiologist Doctor Moreau, driven out of England years before, carries out experiments on animals.

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Famous quotes

• The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

  Chapter XIVIn context

  • Nature
  • Science

• An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

  Chapter XXIIn context

  • Animals
  • Truth & Lies

• There is⁠—though I do not know how there is or why there is⁠—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.

  Chapter XXIIIn context

  • Hope
  • Nature

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Chapter IIn the Dingey of the “Lady Vain”
3. Chapter IIThe Man Who Was Going Nowhere
4. Chapter IIIThe Strange Face
5. Chapter IVAt the Schooner’s Rail
6. Chapter VThe Man Who Had Nowhere to Go
7. Chapter VIThe Evil-Looking Boatmen
8. Chapter VIIThe Locked Door
9. Chapter VIIIThe Crying of the Puma
10. Chapter IXThe Thing in the Forest
11. Chapter XThe Crying of the Man
12. Chapter XIThe Hunting of the Man
13. Chapter XIIThe Sayers of the Law
14. Chapter XIIIA Parley
15. Chapter XIVDoctor Moreau Explains
16. Chapter XVConcerning the Beast Folk
17. Chapter XVIHow the Beast Folk Taste Blood
18. Chapter XVIIA Catastrophe
19. Chapter XVIIIThe Finding of Moreau
20. Chapter XIXMontgomery’s “Bank Holiday”
21. Chapter XXAlone with the Beast Folk
22. Chapter XXIThe Reversion of the Beast Folk
23. Chapter XXIIThe Man Alone
24. Note