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Just Reads

Reads of classic stories, Occasionally reviews or brief biography of writers. But mostly me, reading stories.Remember: There are small booksellters who will usually be able to fulfill your order cheaper and with more care than Amazon.abebooks.co.uk is recommended.It would be nice if people could click "like". It costs nothing and makes an old man happy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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15:49

W. Somerset Maugham =The Taipan

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2025/07/17

A selfish, bigoted British expat high executive thinks he got the best of life by abusing of all the mod-cons there is - servants mostly - while living in colonial China - till a day he decides to go on a rare stroll through the local cemetery...Contains references which some may find offensive in the original text.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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37:25

M.R.James - A Warning To The Curious

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2025/07/15

"A Warning to the Curious" is a ghost story by English writer M. R. James, first published in The London Mercury in August 1925 and collected in James' book A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories that same year. The tale tells the story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" (a disguised version of Aldeburgh, Suffolk) and inadvertently stumbles across one of the three lost crowns of East Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion. Upon

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14:48

Saturday Night Serial - H.G.Wells - The Time Machine...

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2025/07/12

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Chapter OneChapter

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9:00

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla (excerpt)

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2025/07/08

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It is one of the earliest known works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue, the story is narrated by a young woman who is preyed upon by a female vampire named "Carmilla". The titular character is the prototypical example of the fictional lesbian vampire.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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11:42

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine -...

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2025/07/05

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Chapter OneChapter

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22:48

H.G.Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 -...

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2025/07/05

I listened back to the previous read and wasn't happy with it so I re-recorded it. So this is exactly the same as the previous version of Episode eight, only with a better read.The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and

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7:04

Jerome K Jerome - Three Men In A Boat - Opening

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2025/07/02

Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome describing a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction from the comic novel.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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11:54

Washington Irving - The Adventure of the German Student

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2025/07/01

"The Adventure of the German Student" is a short story by Washington Irving, which was published in 1824 in his collection of essays Tales of a Traveller. The story was inspired by a French tale of unknown origin, and several variations of the story have since appeared in print.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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27:09

EJ Benson - The Room in the Tower

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2025/06/26

"The Room in the Tower" is a short horror story by E. F. Benson, published in 1912. The Room in the Tower and Other Stories is a compilation of stories by Benson. An unnamed young man has a recurring nightmare in which he visits a friend's house in the summer.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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4:08

John Pheonix - Tushmaker's Toothpuller

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2025/06/25

"Tushmaker's Toothpuller" is a short story written by John Phoenix, a pseudonym for the American humorist and writer, whose real name was John P. Smith. He was active in the mid-19th century and is known for his humorous and satirical writings, often reflecting the culture and society of his time.The story itself is a comedic narrative that revolves around the character of a toothpuller, showcasing the absurdities and eccentricities associated with dental practices of that era. Through humor,

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14:11

O Henry - The Furnished Room

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2025/06/24

‘The Furnished Room’ is a short story by the US short-story writer O. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His stories are characterised by their irony, their occasional sentimentality, and by their surprise twist endings. All of these things became something of a signature feature, and ‘The Furnished Room’, which is one of O. Henry’s more melodramatic tales, showcases them all to some extent.Rest of reviewTRIGGER WARNING: CONTAINS SUICIDEBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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23:18

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine -...

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2025/06/21

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Chapter OneChapter

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19:40

Ralph Cram - In Kropsberg Keep

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2025/06/19

“The Kropfsberg Keep” by Ralph Adams Cram. It has ghosts, it has misdirection, it has a haunted manor, it has massacres; it has it all.TRIGGER WARNINGContains suicide.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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2:09

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Academy of...

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2025/06/18

Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising human nature and the imaginary "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work, one of the most famous classics of English literature, and popularised the fictional island of Lilliput.Excerpt from the

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1:36

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Peoples of...

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2025/06/18

Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising human nature and the imaginary "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work, one of the most famous classics of English literature, and popularised the fictional island of Lilliput.This is the short

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28:39

Charles Dickens - The Signalman (New Read)

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2025/06/17

"The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works.I re-read this as I felt I could do it better than the previous post.

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12:46

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine -...

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2025/06/14

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Chapter OneChapter

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29:17

E Nesbitt - Mansize in Marble

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2025/06/12

Edith Nesbit’s supernatural masterpiece – “Man-Size in Marble” – was first published in 1887, one year after “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and three years before The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was a period of intense revival for both popular and literary horror, one where the tropes of terror were regularly being reworked in surprising and unsettling ways, communicating completely different ideas and pondering the younger, more cosmopolitan Late Victorians’ unique anxieties. Nesbit was

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14:04

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

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2025/06/10

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888–89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and added illustrations, in 1892.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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1:26

War of the Worlds - Introduction

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2025/06/09

Just for a bit of a lark, I thought I'd record this. Whaddya think? It's only the intro. Interested to see if anyone likes it...The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann. The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between

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