This edition includes 10 illustrations. A master storyteller who delves deep into worlds unknown, H.G. Wells published The Island of Dr. Moreau in 1896 in the midst of an ongoing conversation about animal vivisection – or surgery for the sake of experimentation. In this classic work of science fiction, Wells’ main protagonist, Prendick, finds himself trapped on an island with the enigmatic Dr. Moreau and his animal-human hybrid creatures. Far from home and unable to get off the island, the horrors he – and therefore we, the readers – witness raise questions about the ethical treatment of animals and animal experimentation, issues still hotly debated today.