The Island of Doctor Moreau

Washed up after a shipwreck, Edward Prendick is put ashore on a remote Pacific island inhabited by an exiled scientist and his assistant. The islanders, unsettling in their features, recite a Law like a prayer, and cries come at night from the laboratory. Prendick discovers the nature of Moreau's experiments and how fragile the order they impose is. The story explores the limits of science, the pain inflicted on living creatures and what separates man from animal. Wells makes of it a dark fable about creating without knowing what one creates.