Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time, credited to Wilkie Collins, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins. Read in English by deongines; Lisa Reichert; Mary Herndon Bell; Mike Pelton; acousticwave; Michelle Schroff Heart and Science is one of Wilkie Collins' didactic novels. It is the story of young doctor Ovid Vere, who fights for his love against all resistance of his family and their immediate circle of acquaintances. The novel features a large inheritance, a secret engagement, and an evil stepmother, but what makes the novel remarkable is that Wilkie Collins, who was always very fond of animals, speaks out in this volume against animal cruelty in the sciences. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
• Author credits: Wilkie Collins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 14:32:30

Catalogue topics

• London
• Canada
• classics
• animal
• Collins
• animal rights
• vivisection

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 00 - The Prefaces — 9:50
2. 01 - Chapter I — 3:00
3. 02 - Chapter II — 15:11
4. 03 - Chapter III — 18:55
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 5:15
6. 05 - Chapter V — 18:09
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 10:42
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 12:41
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 19:52
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 12:09
11. 10 - Chapter X — 16:58
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 15:52
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 15:50
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 14:41
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 19:56
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 16:18
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 12:16
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 17:44
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 6:51
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 19:17
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 15:34
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 16:11
23. 22 - Chapter XXII — 8:41
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 9:15

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