H. G. Wells and science

The Island of Doctor Moreau is unquestionably a shocking novel. It is also a serious, and highly knowledgeable, philosophical engagement with Wells’ times–with their climate of scientific openness and advancement, but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of scientific discoveries, and their implications for religion. Listen to Professor Darryl Jones, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau, discuss H. G. Wells’ connections to science and the themes of scientific ethics and conflict in his great scientific romance.

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