The Island of Doctor Moreau, Herbert George Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau, Herbert George Wells
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The Island of Doctor Moreau

Author: Herbert George Wells

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Abridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/22/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

The shipwrecked Edward Prendick is rescued by the passing ship Ipecacuanha, which is carrying a cargo of animals. On board he comes across Montgomery, who appears to have a grotesque servant named M'ling. They are put ashore onto an island that is owned by Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist, who is known for his infamous experiments in vivisection. Through his encounters with creatures that appear part human and part beast, Prendick quickly realizes that Dr. Moreau is continuing his macabre experiments to create men out of the animals, both physiologically and psychologically, and fears that he will be Moreau's next subject. After one of the creatures escapes, Moreau and Montgomery are killed and Prendick is left alone to survive on the island with the Beast Folk.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on October 10, 2021

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 on February 11, 2016

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 on August 27, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Charles on February 03, 2024

This 1896 sci-fi novel is one of H.G. Wells' best known works. In addition to having been printed in multiple editions since 1896, it has also been adapted for film several times. Charles Laughton, Burt Lancaster and Marlon Brando have all had their turns at starring in movies based on the novel. Of......more

Goodreads review by Lea on June 05, 2021

"There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live." Unique, peculiar and interesting science fiction story by H.G.Wells......more