Just Reads

De: Ed Parnell
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  • 5 minute book reviews and recommendations every Tuesday and Thursday. And a fortnightly biog of some of the great writers on Wednesday; The authors who passed into legend and some of their short stories to whet your appetite for literature,

    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.

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    Owners maintain copyrtight on all material used ; Fair use for reviews and demonstration purposes.
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  • About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

    About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
    May 7 2025
    Cnarles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of his or any other time. His works examine the human condition, and deal with lust for power, arrogrance, kindness, the cruelty and triumphs of life.

    This is a brief outline of the man, his work and why his legacy is so important.

    Copyright beling to originators for all clips used

    CONTENTS
    Excerpt - The Life and Times of David Copperfield
    Clips
    Hard Times - Granada Television 1977 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDhtkwoDHg
    Oliver! (1968) - Please Sir, I Want Some More Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCu9-r6B8E
    Excerpt - Dombey and Son
    Mr Jingle is exposed in the Postumous Pickwick Papers (1985 BBC adaptation of The Pickwick Papers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rmh_bQd0w
    Excerpt
    David Copperfield meets Mr Macorber - The Life and Times of David Copperfield
    A christmas carol, possibly the best adaptation, with Alastair Simm as Scrooge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPceYjVQVnw
    The Old Curiosity Shop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSWj8fcfUE
    A full read of the short story 'The Signalman'.


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    43 m
  • Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise

    Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise
    May 6 2025
    A srudent recieves an unexpected visitor. A message is conveyed, a promise is kept.

    H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.

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    30 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Episode One

    Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Episode One
    May 3 2025
    Episode One: Introduction

    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

    Episode two next Saturday night.

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    10 m
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