The novel classics of French fiction and sci-fi literature by Maurice Renard (1875-1939) “Dr. Lern, the demigod” is the story of an ordinary bourgeois, compulsively involved in the monstrous experiments of a mad professor ... and in an erotic muddle . In this book, dedicated to G. Wells, Renard - as one critic put it - "begins where 'Dr. Moreau's Island' ends". Russian translation of the novel M. Renara's Dr. Lern, the Demigod (1908) was first published by M. G. Kornfeld in St. Petersburg in 1912 in the series "Library of the Blue Journal" . The book is published on this edition in a new spelling, with the correction of typos, some outdated spelling and punctuation features, and a number of outdated turns. Well-known translational negligence also required a certain wording of the text, which we tried to minimize. Part of the phrase "Despite the fact that this operation..." (with.) 101), released by mistake of the typewriter in the original edition, restored in meaning. This publication is exclusively for cultural and educational purposes and is not intended for any commercial reproduction and distribution, profit-making, etc. p.