The Island of Doctor Moreau  Unabrid..., H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau  Unabrid..., H.G. Wells
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The Island of Doctor Moreau - Unabridged

Author: H.G. Wells

Narrator: Kevin Theis

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2022


Synopsis

This is an audio enhanced version - with music and sound effects - of a book long hailed as one of the great science fiction classics, H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. It tells the story of Edward Prendick, a shipwreck survivor who is brought to an uncharted island where he encounters Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist bent on experimenting with human/animal hybrids.

Described by Wells himself as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy," this story is a disturbing and fascinating look into the moral responsibility of scientific experimentation, the ethics of meddling with the natural world and, ultimately, what it means to be human.

Reviews

Welcoming the body horror genre, paired with a classical mad scientists´ approach towards progressive research methods and creating special forms of new life, Wells shows how secret living biological weapons programs were done in the good, old, elitist days. Luckily, science has evolved and today´s......more

Goodreads review by Leonard

This book stems from an idea that is at the same time thought-provoking, insane and very tangible. That is probably the reason why it is so scary. It is a classic of the victorian era, but for some reason probably not as famous as many other fictions of the “gothic” movement and indeed not as well k......more

Goodreads review by Anne

This was my first time reading this classic sci-fi morality tale, and it wasn't exactly what I expected. <--not in a bad way I thought it was going to be this Island where Dr. Moreau was splicing and dicing genes and coming up with human-animal hybrids. And then this new guy was going to come along a......more