The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other Stories | H. G. Wells | Wordsworth Classic | Book Moreau’s highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island of Doctor Moreau ‘a youthful exercise in blasphemy’. Today his vivid depictions of the Beast People still strike modern readers with an uncanny glimpse of the animal in the human, while the behavior of humans leave us wondering who is the most monstrous after all.This volume unites four of Wells’ liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behavior of animals – including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters.