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Scholarly Editions: H.G. Wells' The Island
of Doctor Moreau - Annotated with an Introduction
Table of
Contents
Introduction
H. G.
Wells: Early Life
Wells
the Reader, or the Tale of Two Broken Legs
Intellectual
and Artistic Life
Early
Period
Middle
Period
Late
Period
About The
Island of Doctor Moreau
Critical
Reaction and Editorial Changes
Influences
Overview
of the novel
Film
and Novelistic Adaptations
The Island
of Doctor Moreau
INTRODUCTION
I. IN
THE DINGEY OF THE "LADY VAIN."
II. THE
MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE.
III.
THE STRANGE FACE.
IV. AT
THE SCHOONER'S RAIL.
V. THE
MAN WHO HAD NOWHERE TO GO.
VI. THE
EVIL-LOOKING BOATMEN.
VII.
THE LOCKED DOOR.
VIII.
THE CRYING OF THE PUMA.
IX. THE
THING IN THE FOREST.
X. THE
CRYING OF THE MAN.
XI. THE
HUNTING OF THE MAN.
XII.
THE SAYERS OF THE LAW.
XIII.
A PARLEY.
XIV.
DOCTOR MOREAU EXPLAINS.
XV. CONCERNING
THE BEAST FOLK.
XVI.
HOW THE BEAST FOLK TASTE BLOOD.
XVII.
A CATASTROPHE.
XVIII.
THE FINDING OF MOREAU.
XIX.
MONTGOMERY'S "BANK HOLIDAY."
XX. ALONE
WITH THE BEAST FOLK.
XXI.
THE REVERSION OF THE BEAST FOLK.
XXII.
THE MAN ALONE.
Appendices
Appendix
1 - Preface to Seven Famous Novels 1934
Appendix
2 - The Limits of Individual Plasticity
Appendix
3 - The Province of Pain
Appendix
4 - Scepticism of the Instrument
Appendix
5 - Human Evolution, an Artificial Process
Appendix
6 - Excerpt from The Croquet Player (1936)
Appendix
7 - Comparative Theology
Appendix
8 - Bio-Optimism
Works Cited
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