Published : 1896Pages : 186
Overall Mark : 7/10
When Edward Prendick is rescued after the shipwreck of the Lady Vain, he finds himself aboard a vessel carrying a menagerie of wild animals and their keeper, Montgomery. Nursed back to helath by Montgomery, Prendick is put ashore with the man and his beasts on an unknown island where he encounters Montgomery's master, the brilliant and sinister Doctor Moreau. And soon, Prendick discovers that the island holds a dark and terrible secret - Doctor Moreau has been playing God.
H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)
Born in Bromley, Kent, the third son of a shopkeeper, Herbert George Wells was apprenticed to a draper before becoming a teacher-pupil at Midhurst Grammar School and winning a scholarship to study under T.H. Huxley. Through his trail-blazing works of science fiction, his prophetic imagination and his championing of socialism, science and women's rights he became a hugely influential figure of international renown.
VERDICT
This is definitely one of HG Wells strongest novels, which has a perfect flow to its narrative and an imaginative yet believable storyline. Don't presume that this will just be another poorly executed great idea because this manages to take the idea of a mad scientist living on a monster inhabited island surprisingly plausible and well ahead of its time.
