L'illa del doctor Moreau

In the Pacific Ocean a ship sinks and one of the shipwrecked, Edward Prendick, is rescued by a small merchant who is carrying a load of live animals -dogs, rabbits, a llama, a cougar- to an island still untouched. first name. Coincidentally, Prendick also landed on the island, and there he will discover with horror the unimaginable experiments that Dr. Moreau is practicing with animals. Wells was not a mere pioneer of science fiction, but a visionary with enormously effective writing who challenges the reader about the role of science and about ethical boundaries in altering nature.