Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | Chapter 00 - Introduction | 3:17 |
02 | Chapter 01 - In The Dingey Of The "Lady Vain" | 6:55 |
03 | Chapter 02 - The Man Who Was Going Nowhere | 7:06 |
04 | Chapter 03 - The Strange Face | 11:59 |
05 | Chapter 04 - At The Schooner's Rail | 7:54 |
06 | Chapter 05 - The Man Who Had Nowhere To Go | 9:01 |
07 | Chapter 06 - The Evil-Looking Boatmen | 11:29 |
08 | Chapter 07 - The Locked Door | 10:48 |
09 | Chapter 08 - The Crying Of The Puma | 6:44 |
10 | Chapter 09 - The Thing In The Forest | 21:30 |
11 | Chapter 10 - The Crying Of The Man | 8:03 |
12 | Chapter 11 - The Hunting Of The Man | 12:19 |
13 | Chapter 12 - The Sayers Of The Law | 18:48 |
14 | Chapter 13 - The Parley | 10:46 |
15 | Chapter 14 - Doctor Moreau Explains | 27:16 |
16 | Chapter 15 - Concerning The Beast Folk | 12:02 |
17 | Chapter 16 - How The Beast Folk Taste Blood | 27:05 |
18 | Chapter 17 - A Catastrophe | 11:25 |
19 | Chapter 18 - The Finding Of Moreau | 8:57 |
20 | Chapter 19 - Montgomery's Bank Holiday | 17:13 |
21 | Chapter 20 - Alone With The Beast Folk | 11:22 |
22 | Chapter 21 - The Reversion Of The Beast Folk | 27:33 |
23 | Chapter 22 - The Man Alone | 7:51 |
Notes
Running Time: 4 hours 57 minutes
Read by: Bob Neufeld
Book Coordinator: Bob Neufeld
Meta Coordinator: Karen Savage
Proof Listener: Micky
Artwork
Cover: Painting by Michael Hogan 2014.
DVD Inset: Cover of first edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Heinemann; London 1896.
DVD Inset: Photo of H.G. Wells published in Newcomb, A; Blackford, K.M.H.: Analyzing Character, 1922.
DVD Insert background: Illustration for the cover of the first edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Recordings
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Edward Prendick, the narrator of The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells, is shipwrecked in the Pacific and rescued by a ship bound for the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) with a cargo of wild animals and revived by a passenger named Montgomery. En route they approach a small island to discharge Montgomery and his strange companion M’ling, at which time the captain insists on discharging Prendick, who is cast adrift in a dinghy after offloading his cargo and passengers. Montgomery again comes to the rescue and puts him up in a compound on the island belonging to a Doctor Moreau. Prendick, who is trained in the sciences, recalls the public outcry in London occasioned by the exposure of Moreau’s experiments in vivisection, and soon discovers the island is populated by humans with marked bestial characteristics. He stumbles across Moreau and a humanoid figure in his operating room and flees, fearing he is next in line. Moreau apprehends him and explains his mission to humanize animals, not the reverse, and that efforts were progressing but marred by an unfortunate tendency of the subjects to revert to animal form. This is made evident when the Leopard-Man and Hyena-Swine bear the prohibition against eating meat. Eventually a subject breaks free and attempts to kill the good doctor. Both are killed in the conflict, and shortly thereafter the compound is destroyed. The animals revert to nature, and Prendick manages to escape when a boat drifts on the beach. His account of the story is greeted as the ravings of a lunatic. Upon his return to civilization he sees many of his fellow men reverting to an animal state and retires to a reclusive life in the country studying astronomy and chemistry.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936547 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700170624 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD box |
Author | H. G. Wells (1850 - 1894) |
Year | 1896 |
Recording | |
Read by | Bob Neufeld |
Length | 4 hours and 57 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Island of Doctor Moreau
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Product Code: DB-1075
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