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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

December 2, 2019 by Christina

Fiction – audiobook. Read by Kelsey Grammer. Apple, 2018. Originally published 1985. 4 hours, 7 minutes. Free download. Identified by the narrator as simply “The Time Traveler”, a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surry is invited to a weekly dinner party to share about his latest invention. At this particular dinner party, the narrator recounts the Traveler’s revelation that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person through time. Encouraged by the audience’s response, […]

Categories: 2019 Reads, Audiobook, Classics, Classics Club, Dystopia, Europe, Fiction, Science Fiction, United Kingdom • Tags: H.G. Wells

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The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

July 8, 2015 by Christina

Fiction — print. Bantam, 1994. Originally published 1896. 157 pgs. Library copy. Shipwrecked somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, Edward Prendick is rescued by a passing ship and revived by a man named Montgomery. The ship has been chartered by Montgomery to carry a collection of animals to an small island in the Pacific owned by a Dr. Moreau, although Montgomery refuses to tell Prendick what exactly Moreau plans to do with the animals or explain who exactly Moreau is. “So […]

Categories: 2015 Reads, Classics, Europe, Fiction, United Kingdom • Tags: H.G. Wells

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