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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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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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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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12:41

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

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2025/06/07

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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13:00

JR M.R.James - Rats

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2025/06/05

Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. James's scholarly work is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered by many critics and authors as the finest in the English language and widely influential on modern horror."Rats" is a short ghost story first published in At Random magazine (March 23,

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24:33

Frank Norris - The Ship That Saw a Ghost

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2025/06/03

Frank Norris's intriguing and atmospheric tale of an old forgotton crime, a tragedy, an ancient derelict ghost ship... and the very bizarre reaction of the modern tramp steamer whose bows she crosses.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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9:41

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

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2025/05/31

Chapter Five of HG Wells, The Time Machine.Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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1:43

Pointless Book of The Week - The Romance of Leprosy

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2025/05/31

Book of the week this week is the enchanting 'Romance of Leprosy'Buy it before it sells out hereBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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Morley Roberts - The Smile of the Giaconda

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2025/05/29

Morley Robers was an adventurer who worked on railways, cattle, and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give. In "The Smile of La Gioconda" he is concerned with the subtle psychological aspects of the love triangle and the perils of repressed emotions.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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5:59

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (excerpt)

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2025/05/27

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment that involved putting it together with different body parts. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the

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12:34

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

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2025/05/24

Chapter four of HG Wells, The Time Machine.Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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5:58

Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles -...

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2025/05/23

Yesterday I put up a read of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and to be honest, it sucked. Bad levels, poor diction, a real nightmare. Everything it shouldn't have been.So here is a better version. I've left the original up because I think it's important and may be useful for someone to compare the two reads.You can find the previous version here. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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6:27

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles...

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2025/05/22

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.Not the best read I have ever done. Some shocking edits in here. But nonetheless, enjoyUPDATE: I redid this

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3:07

Promotional Pamphlet - The Time Registering Closet 1892

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2025/05/21

A genuine amusing ad from epochs departed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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13:41

Edgar Allen Poe - The Masque of the Red Death

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2025/05/20

"The Masque of the Red Death" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball in seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms.Become

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10:37

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 3 - The Time...

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2025/05/18

Chapter three of HG Wells, The Time Machine.Chapter OneChapter TwoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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14:38

Pamela Hansford Johnson - The Honourable Ghost

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2025/05/15

Pamela Hansford-Johnson wrote so many good books, and this, a short story about a man who is invited to stay in a haunted house, who isn't told it's haunted until he can leave, is a light tale about a ghost which won't show its' face to the living.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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31:55

Writers - The life and works of Walter De La Mare

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2025/05/14

A brief bio on the life and works of poet and author Walter De La MareWalter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947

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20:18

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (ExTract)

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2025/05/13

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.Become a supporter of this

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

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2025/05/10

The second intallment of HG Wells classic story, The Time Machine.Part one hereBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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5:47

Phillip K Dick- The Eyes Have It

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2025/05/08

Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . . Start here: It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven't done anything about it; I can't think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I'm

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