English · Intermediate
Read The Island of Doctor Moreau in Englishwith every sentence explained
H. G. Wells · 1896
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About the book
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells was first published in 1896. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under horror and science fiction. It runs to about 42,800 words.
A remote island. A banished scientist. Screams in the night.
After the shipwreck of the Lady Vain, Edward Prendick drifts for days in a small boat before he is rescued by a passing ship carrying a cargo of caged animals. His rescuer, a man named Montgomery, is bound for a nameless island in the Pacific, and Prendick, unwanted by the ship's captain, is put ashore there too.
The island belongs to Doctor Moreau, a brilliant scientist driven out of London years ago by a scandal. Soon Prendick hears terrible cries from Moreau's locked enclosure, and glimpses strange, misshapen figures moving through the jungle. What exactly is the doctor doing here? And what will he do to a witness?
Dark and gripping, The Island of Doctor Moreau is H. G. Wells's chilling tale of science without conscience, adapted for the screen again and again.
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- First published
- 1896
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Length
- About 42,800 words
How it opens
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the Lady Vain. As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao. The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat Myrtle, and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible Medusa case. But I have to add to the published story of the Lady Vain another, possibly as horrible and far stranger.
Reading The Island of Doctor Moreau in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
