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Week 2 Discussion: Master Humphrey's Clock
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By Kathleen · 30 posts · 25 views
last updated Mar 17, 2024 05:16AM
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“WHERE THERE IS CARRION, THERE THE CROWS WILL GATHER.”
There are many times in my recent life, after the crows have once again picked my bones clean, that I’ve turned to this beautiful old book for relief:
And from it drawn a semi-sacred solace.
Wonderful comfort from this Victorian author (especially in the sentence from this book that graces its title) in faith, shared with Tennyson...
And yet we hope that good
Will be the final result of ill!
For it has been In Real Love Incarnate that I have, thro ...more
There are many times in my recent life, after the crows have once again picked my bones clean, that I’ve turned to this beautiful old book for relief:
And from it drawn a semi-sacred solace.
Wonderful comfort from this Victorian author (especially in the sentence from this book that graces its title) in faith, shared with Tennyson...
And yet we hope that good
Will be the final result of ill!
For it has been In Real Love Incarnate that I have, thro ...more
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 themselves. The clock in question is the receptacle for these stories and an important part of Master Humphrey’s home. The narrative voice is comfortable and pleasant as it introduces tales of fantasy, hu
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“We are men of secluded habits, with something of a cloud upon our early fortunes, whose enthusiasm, nevertheless, has not cooled with age, whose spirit of romance is not yet quenched, who are content to ramble through the world in a pleasant dream, rather than ever waken again to its harsh realities.”
An unusual and relatively obscure little Dickens gem.
Written as a weekly periodical, Dickens provides a frame story about Master Humphrey, the Deaf Gentleman, Mr. Pickwick and others, forming an i ...more
An unusual and relatively obscure little Dickens gem.
Written as a weekly periodical, Dickens provides a frame story about Master Humphrey, the Deaf Gentleman, Mr. Pickwick and others, forming an i ...more
A collection of short stories embedded within a frame story in which an elderly Master Humphrey, sitting near his beloved grandfather clock as a fire glows and crackles in the background, reads the manuscripts that he and his friends have written for the purpose of entertaining one another. The stories shared range from fantasy to crime to witchcraft hysteria. While these tales were interesting, I enjoyed the larger story of Master Humphrey and his friends much more. My favorite chapters were th
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