Just Reads
Reads of classic stories, Occasionally reviews or brief biography of writers. But mostly me, reading stories.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 145
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 11 - The Palace of Green Porcelain
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 gene…
00:13:30 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - First Ten Chapters Catchup
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 gene…
02:04:48 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
W. Somerset Maugham =The Taipan
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…
00:15:49 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
M.R.James - A Warning To The Curious
"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 S…
00:37:25 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Saturday Night Serial - H.G.Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 10 - When Night Came
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 gene…
00:14:48 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla (excerpt)
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…
00:09:00 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 9 - The Morlocks
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 gene…
00:11:42 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
H.G.Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 - Explanation (REDONE)
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…
The Time Machine is an…
00:22:48 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
Jerome K Jerome - Three Men In A Boat - Opening
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 King…
00:07:04 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Washington Irving - The Adventure of the German Student
"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 u…
00:11:54 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
EJ Benson - The Room in the Tower
"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…
00:27:09 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
John Pheonix - Tushmaker's Toothpuller
"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 k…
00:04:08 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
O Henry - The Furnished Room
‘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 sent…
00:14:11 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 - Explanation
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 gene…
00:23:18 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Ralph Cram - In Kropsberg Keep
“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 WARNING
Contains suicide.
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TRIGGER WARNING
Contains suicide.
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00:19:40 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Academy of Projectors
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…
00:02:09 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Peoples of Laputa
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…
00:01:36 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Charles Dickens - The Signalman (New Read)
"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 f…
00:28:39 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 7 - A Sudden Shock
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 gene…
00:12:46 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
E Nesbitt - Mansize in Marble
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.…
00:29:17 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
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