| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Penguin readers. Level 3.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Kevin Theis. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Readers.
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Readers for new literates.
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High interest-low vocabulary books.
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Animal experimentation -- Fiction.
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Science -- Ethics -- Fiction.
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Shipwreck survival -- Fiction.
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Islands -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Beddall, Fiona.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Island of Dr Moreau |
| ISBN |
9781667966861 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1667966863 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT15059637 |
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