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Master Humphrey's Clock

Charles Dickens

Book Overview: 

Between April of 1840 and December of the following year, Charles Dickens published Master Humphrey's Clock - a weekly periodical that presented short stories ostensibly read by the title character and his circle of friends - as well as correspondence to the fictional club. Ultimately, the periodical included the complete novels "The Old Curiosity Club" and "Barnaby Rudge." These two novels are, however, referenced in the recording, when Master Humphrey and his friends refer to them. This recording presents all the published material except for the two novels.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ry other feeling, and somewhat reassured by the good-humour of the Giants and their apparent unconsciousness of his presence, he crouched in a corner of the gallery, in as small a space as he could, and, peeping between the rails, observed them closely.

It was then that the elder Giant, who had a flowing gray beard, raised his thoughtful eyes to his companion's face, and in a grave and solemn voice addressed him thus:

FIRST NIGHT OF THE GIANT CHRONICLES

Turning towards his companion the elder Giant uttered these words in a grave, majestic tone:

'Magog, does boisterous mirth beseem the Giant Warder of this ancient city? Is this becoming demeanour for a watchful spirit over whose bodiless head so many years have rolled, so many changes swept like empty air - in whose impalpable nostrils the scent of blood and crime, pestilence, cruelty, and horror, has been familiar as breath to mortals - in whose sight . . . Read More

Community Reviews

"The Master's Clock" is part of Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers."

It was an enjoyable read.

I have the Obscure Reading group to thank for my discovery and reading of Master Humphrey’s Clock. Part of Dickens’ large collection of stories, this grouping is set around an older man who gathers friends, old and new, into what becomes a regular gathering to share stories. And they also share them

This was a gorgeous short novel from which a multitude of charming characters (each with their own fantastical life stories) pours forth.
Their tales (in an almost Chaucerian manner) range from the sinister, to the romantic, to the adventurous.

I also had the pleasure of reading the ending to a lear

Since The Mystery of Edwin Drood was only half a story, the volume that Ernie gave me at our last Gentlemen's Book Club included Master Humphrey's Clock at the back, I suppose as a kind of compensation.
 
Dickens originally wrote it as a weekly periodical between April 1840 and December 1841. The illu

A collection of stories from a fictitious club of writers, including the hilarious Mr. Pickwick, who share various anecdotes and short stories amongst the members of the club. These lead into the serialized novels of "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge", serving as an introduction for fictio

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