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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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16:39

J Sebastian Le Fanu - The Narrative of the Ghost of a...

Just Reads ·

2025/10/14

In this richly layered and unsettling tale, Sheridan Le Fanu presents a haunting centered not around a traditional ghost, but around the eerie and inexplicable appearance of a ghostly hand.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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3:20

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The...

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2025/10/11

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.Become a supporter of this

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0:47

Book of the week - Toddlers Guide to the Rubber Industry

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2025/10/11

An excellent work of outstanding natural beauty.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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26:14

Charles Dickens - The Trial For Murder

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2025/10/09

" The Trial for Murder " is a short story written by Charles Dickens in 1865. It was originally published under the title "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt" as a chapter in Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions in an extra Christmas volume of the weekly literary magazineBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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6:00

Thomas Hood - The Tale of Terror

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2025/10/07

Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, had lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45According to Hood's son, this story was written hurriedly to fill an unexpected gap in a magazine. The printer's devil was waiting for copy

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1:54

Book of the week - Report of the temperature reached...

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2025/10/04

A gripping read full of twists and turns.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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24:13

Charles Dickens - The Black Veil

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2025/10/02

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47:31

F.Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth

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2025/09/13

The classic haunted cabin story.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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13:09

Edgar Allen Poe - The Tell Tale Heart

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2025/09/11

A murderer cannot unhear his victim's heart"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with

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8:03

The dispute over Casablanca

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2025/09/10

Groucho Marx letters to Warner Brothers over use of the word 'Casablanca'Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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20:16

Daniel Defoe - Mrs Veal

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2025/09/09

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2:08

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

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2025/09/06

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 One Chapter

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8:13

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

Just Reads ·

2025/09/06

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 One Chapter

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19:54

JS Fletcher - The Other Sense

Just Reads ·

2025/09/04

They have told me to-day, with obvious reluctance, and in the kindest fashion, that I am to go to-morrow to the house of a Dr. Schreiber, in whose care I am to remain until I am restored to health. Restored to health!—my God! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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17:10

Ambrose Bierce - The Bottomless Grave

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2025/09/02

A respectable family is forced into a life of crime, with unexpected consequences.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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2:58

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

Just Reads ·

2025/08/30

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 One Chapter

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6:26

M.R.James - The Man Who Dwelt by The Churchyard

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2025/08/28

The temptation of man can be his downfall. Even when those he has robbed are dead.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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2:37

Kenneth Grahame - Wind In The Willows - Toad Steals...

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2025/08/27

Toad, thinking he has recovered from his automobile addiction, finds he is not.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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4:13

Kenneth Grahame - Wind In The Willows - The Cart and...

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2025/08/27

Exerpt from the book where Toad has had an intervention regarding his obsession with cars.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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19:13

E G Swain - Bone to his Bones

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2025/08/26

A Reverend from the past sends a message to a Reverend of the futureBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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