Description: Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Text 2. Nature and Nurture 3. Noble's Isle 4. Chance, Waste, and Pain 5. Chronolatry 6. The Sphinx of Sin 7. Pig Philosophy 8. Vivisection Morality The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) (Annotated text of the first London edition) Epilogue: The Coming Terror Appendices I. a. "The Province of Pain" (1894) b. Excerpt from Text-Book of Biology (1893, Part I-- Vertebrata ) II. "The Limits of Individual Plasticity" (1895c) III. a. "Human Evolution, An Artificial Process" (1896c) b. "Mr. Wells Replies" (1897b) c. "The Acquired Factor" (1897a) IV. a. "The Influence of Islands on Variation" (1895e) b. "To the Editor of the Saturday Review " (1896d) V. "Morals and Civilisation" (1897c) VI. Excerpt from Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science (1883) Bibliography Index

Please Wait