The Island of Doctor Moreau

First published in 1896, ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, an English writer. Excellent in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography.
In this novel, Edward Prendick reaches an enigmatic island, and he is presented to its leader, the evasive Dr. Moreau. He’s a dishonored vivisectionist who was compelled to escape after his investigations were uncovered. On the island, he made a human-animal-hybrid race called Beast Folk. As Prendick meets these creatures, he starts to worry for his life. He endeavors to flee the dreadfulness of the land but is tormented by its hideous reality.

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady's maid. Although 'Bertie' left school at fourteen to become a draper's apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other 'scientific romances'—The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction.