The Island Of Doctor Moreau (SF Masterworks)

When Edward Pendrick is rescued after the shipwreck of the Lady Vain, he finds himself aboard a vessel carrying a menagerie of wild animals and their keeper, Montgomery. Nursed back to health by Montgomery, Pendrick is put ashore with the man and his beasts on an unknown island where he encounters Montgomery's master, the brilliant and sinister Dr. Moreau. And soon, Pendrick discovers that the island hold a dark and terrible secret - Doctor Moreau has been playing God.