Abel's Island is a 1976 novel by William Steig, about a mouse named Abel who gets stranded on an island. During a heavy rainstorm that interrupts a picnic, Abel is separated from his wife Amanda and swept down a river. Eventually he arrives on an island where he must fight for survival, fending off an owl, the cold weather and his loneliness. After a frog named Gower fails to help him, Abel swims across the river and makes a long journey home.
The Island of Dr. Moreau is a science fiction novel that tells the story of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man who is left on the island of Doctor Moreau, a physiologist who performs gruesome dissections and experiments on animals. Edward soon finds that Moreau has been using animal parts to create human-like beings. These Beast Folk inhabit the island and live under Moreau's rule. Though Prendick is eventually able to escape, his experiences haunt him. The novel explores themes of cruelty, identity, and human nature.