General Information
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 Title:                  The Island of Dr Moreau
 Author:                 HG Wells
 Read By:                Simon Prebble
 Copyright:              1896
 Audiobook Copyright:    1996
 Publisher:              Recorded Books Inc
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Tape
 Number:                 4
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Good

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 Total Duration:         5hrs:26min
 Total MP3 Size:         149.69 MB
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The Island of Doctor Moreau(1896)
Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances.
 An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution,
 which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau,
 who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote tropical island, with hideous,
 humanlike results. Edward Prendick, an English-man whose misfortunes bring him to the island
, is witness to the Beast Folk’s strange civilization and their eventual terrifying regression.
 While gene-splicing and bioengineering are common practices today, readers are stil
l astounded at Wells’s haunting vision and the ethical questions he raised a century before our time.

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(Herbert George Wells)  (1866 - 1946)
aka - Reginald Bliss
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Herbert George Wells was a product of his time--the son of a servant,
 he studied the sciences at university and became both a popular writer and an
 influential socialist intellectual with a moderately scandalous list of affairs with women.
 Most of his science fiction dates from early in his career--in a few short years,
 he invented many of the obsessional tropes of the genre from The Time Machine
 to contact with hostile aliens (in The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon)
 to suspended animation (in The Sleeper Awakes) and the temporary uplift of animals
 to sapience (in The Island of Doctor Moreau). In almost all of these cases, he creates
 at once a satirical comment on some trend in contemporary society--class division,
 imperialism and so on--and a powerful poetic myth that transcends any immediate satiric
 content; when we think of the effete Eloi and subterranean Morlocks in The Time Machine,
 it is not just of aristocrats and proletarians that we think. Like Verne, he was occasionally
 fond of comic stereotypes--Wells almost singlehandedly crystallized the figure of the
 impractical comic scientist (in The First Men in the Moon), as he did that of the scientist
 so ruthless as to be on the edge of sanity (in The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau).
 Unlike Verne, and perhaps because he had a solid scientific background, he did no
t fetishize scientific accuracy and used scientific ideas as story germs and for verisimilitude.
 Most of his later novels have no sf content, (while being novels of ideas in precisely the
 same way as his sf novels), the exceptions being various utopian fictions like In the Days
 of the Comet and terrible warnings like The War in the Air. Wells's political evolution was
 from an optimist who believed in casual eugenic slaughter to a pessimist who cultivated humane virtues.

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01      5.21  0:11:22   HGW-01-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
02      3.87  0:08:26   HGW-02-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
03      6.02  0:13:08   HGW-03-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
04      4.23  0:09:14   HGW-04-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
05      4.41  0:09:37   HGW-05-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
06      5.53  0:12:04   HGW-06-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
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20      4.30  0:09:23   HGW-20-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
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28      3.50  0:07:38   HGW-28-28-The Island of Dr Moreau.mp3
