The Island of Doctor Moreau

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...

H.G. Wells, English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds.