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
George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
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 i…
00:14:04 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
War of the Worlds - Introduction
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…
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G…
00:01:26 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 6 - The Sunset of Mankind
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…
00:12:41 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
JR M.R.James - Rats
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. …
00:13:00 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Frank Norris - The Ship That Saw a Ghost
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…
00:24:33 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 5 - In The Golden Age
Chapter Five of HG Wells, The Time Machine.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
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00:09:41 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Pointless Book of The Week - The Romance of Leprosy
Book of the week this week is the enchanting 'Romance of Leprosy'
Buy it before it sells out here
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Buy it before it sells out here
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00:01:43 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Morley Roberts - The Smile of the Giaconda
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 …
00:14:00 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (excerpt)
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 cr…
00:05:59 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 4 - Time Travel
Chapter four of HG Wells, The Time Machine.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
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00:12:34 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles - excerpt - Better version
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'v…
So here is a better version. I'v…
00:05:58 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles (extract)
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 Aug…
00:06:27 |
Thu 22 May 2025
Promotional Pamphlet - The Time Registering Closet 1892
A genuine amusing ad from epochs departed.
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00:03:07 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Edgar Allen Poe - The Masque of the Red Death
"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 …
00:13:41 |
Tue 20 May 2025
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 3 - The Time Traveller Returns
Chapter three of HG Wells, The Time Machine.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
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00:10:37 |
Sun 18 May 2025
Pamela Hansford Johnson - The Honourable Ghost
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 …
00:14:38 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Writers - The life and works of Walter De La Mare
A brief bio on the life and works of poet and author Walter De La Mare
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for chi…
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for chi…
00:31:55 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (ExTract)
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 illustrate…
00:20:18 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Saturday Night Serial - H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 2 - The Machine
The second intallment of HG Wells classic story, The Time Machine.
Part one here
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Part one here
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00:07:34 |
Sat 10 May 2025
Phillip K Dick- The Eyes Have It
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 acci…
00:05:47 |
Thu 08 May 2025
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