M Master Humphrey's Clock Charles Dickens
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Master Humphrey's Clock

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  1. Dedication and Prefaces

    9:25

  2. Chapter One, part one - Master Humphrey From His Clock-Side / Introduction to the Giant Chronicles

    34:26

  3. Chapter One, part two - First Night of the Giant Chronicles / Correspondence to Master Humphrey

    33:49

  4. Chapter Two - Master Humphrey, From His Clock-Side, in the Chimney Corner / The Clock-Case / Correspondence

    45:17

  5. Chapter Three, part one - Master Humphrey's Visitor / Mister Pickwick's Tale

    34:53

  6. Chapter Three, part two - Second Part of Mister Pickwick's Tale / Further Particulars of Master Humprey's Visitor

    35:11

  7. Chapter Four - The Clock

    19:54

  8. Chapter Five - Mr. Weller's Watch

    20:43

  9. Chapter Six, part one - Master Humphrey, From His Clockside in the Chimney Corner

    28:42

  10. Chapter Six, part two - Master Humphrey, From His Clockside, continued / The Deaf Gentleman From His Own Apartment

    21:55

  11. Epilogue from Charles Dickens - To the Readers of Master Humphrey's Clock / Postscript

    5:55

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An old house in a quiet London suburb provides the meeting place for Master Humphrey and his circle of listeners. Beside his clock and chimney corner, this solitary older narrator offers the prospect of companionship through stories. Charles Dickens builds a frame around the people who tell, read and hear these tales, with Mr. Pickwick and familiar friends joining the gathering. The preface also explains the weekly form of the work and the author's wish to sustain a close connection with his readers.

Within that friendly setting, the stories can move into a livelier world of local fears and comic evasions. In one passage, a messenger from Kingston seeks someone brave enough to investigate reported witchcraft, while John Podgers and a farrier find reasons to pass the task along. The contrast between alarming reports and comfortable excuses gives the scene its humor. Readers interested in Dickens's storytelling habits will find both the imagined company around the clock and the voices of the tales they share.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

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