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A dinghy occupant suggests drawing lots to decide which of them will be eaten by the others.
Chapter 1The loser of the draw fights the dinghy's third occupant, and both fall off the boat.
Chapter 1Rescued by the schooner Ipecacuanha, Prendick is tended to by Montgomery.
Chapter 2The Ipecacuanha reaches the island where Montgomery lives. Prendick is forced to disembark there.
Chapter 5Prendick meets Doctor Moreau, who gives him a room in the island's compound.
Chapter 7Prendick realizes that Moreau is a vivisectionist who was driven from England years earlier.
Chapter 7Noticing that the cries now sound human, Prendick decides Moreau is vivisecting people.
Chapter 10At the ravine where the Beast People live, Prendick meets the Sayer of the Law.
Chapter 12Moreau and Montgomery convince Prendick that they are vivisecting animals, not people.
Chapter 13Moreau discovers that the Leopard Man is eating rabbits. Prendick kills the Leopard Man.
Chapter 16The puma that Moreau is vivisecting escapes from Moreau, breaking Prendick's arm.
Chapter 17Montgomery and Prendick find the dead Moreau and then kill everything in Moreau's lab.
Chapter 18Montgomery gets drunk and gives alcohol to the Beast People. Chaos ensues, and he is killed.
Chapter 19Prendick sees the Beast People reverting to their animal states.
Chapter 21Prendick leaves the island in the small boat and is rescued by a passing ship.
Chapter 22| Chapter | Summary |
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| Introduction–Chapter 1 | The introduction to The Island of Doctor Moreau takes the form of an affidavit, or sworn statement, by a man named Cha... Read More |
| Chapters 2–3 | Edward Prendick awakens after his rescue aboard a schooner called the Ipecacuanha. Sitting next to his bunk is a man n... Read More |
| Chapters 4–5 | The schooner Ipecacuanha continues its voyage, and after sundown an island appears in the distance. Montgomery tells E... Read More |
| Chapters 6–7 | Shortly after Edward Prendick is set adrift from the Ipecacuanha, the occupants of the launch take pity on him. Montgo... Read More |
| Chapters 8–9 | Edward Prendick and Montgomery eat lunch together in Prendick's room at Doctor Moreau's island compound. Doctor Moreau... Read More |
| Chapters 10–11 | As Edward Prendick nears the compound, he realizes that the light before him is shining through the open exterior door... Read More |
| Chapters 12–13 | The Ape Man has led Edward Prendick to a dimly lit area at the far end of a ravine. Several Beast People live there in... Read More |
| Chapters 14–15 | Doctor Moreau shows Edward Prendick the puma he has been vivisecting and convinces him at last that he is turning anim... Read More |
| Chapters 16–17 | Montgomery takes Prendick to see the island's fumarole (a volcanic vent) and hot springs. On the way, they come across... Read More |
| Chapters 18–19 | Doctor Moreau has chased the escaped puma into the brush and not returned. Montgomery has given up the search for him ... Read More |
| Chapters 20–Chapter 21 | Just after Montgomery's death, Edward Prendick is confronted by three Beast Men (one of whom is named later in the nov... Read More |
| Chapter 22 | On the third evening after the small boat and its two dead passengers drift onto Doctor Moreau's island, Edward Prendi... Read More |
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