EPISODE · Apr 16, 2012 · 4H 51M
The Island of Dr. Moreau [Written by H.G. Wells]
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island of Dr. Moreau Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 16, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau was an instant sensation that went on to inspire a series of movies. It was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s recently published theory of evolution, which had riveted the world of science and therefore, of science fiction. While gene-splicing and bioengineering are common practices today, readers are still amazed by Wells’s haunting vision and the ethical questions he raised a century before our time. Shipwrecked on a Pacific island, gentleman naturalist Edward Prendick finds Dr. Moreau, a scientist expelled from his homeland for performing cruel vivisection experiments. Here Moreau has found the freedom to continue his work, and Prendick soon becomes involved. Dr. Moreau’s project is to “humanize” animals by torturous surgical transplant, creating hideous creatures with manlike intelligence. But as the cruelly-enforced order on Moreau’s island dissolves, the true consequences of his meddling emerge.
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