My Victorian Literature Journey + my favourite way to read classics

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A huge thanks from the Audrey team for this wonderful shout out for our audiobook app❤

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A huge thanks to Audrey for gifting me the book! A wonderful experience!

[@novellenovels]

Always yay for wuthering heights you know it’s my favourite book ever. Can’t wait for the adaptation 🎉🎉🎉 Love black beauty sooo much 💜💜

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I am very excited that there might be another Wuthering Heights adaptation - I just hope it's good!

[@tillysshelf]

I love the idea of you reading Black Beauty and drawing lots of horses! And yes can see the identification with Agnes Grey and teaching. I hope none of the children you were teaching were torturing puppies though.

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Thankfully, no! 😂

[@ameliabarlowbooks]

have to agree, Gaskell is so accessible and easy to get along with whilst also addressing some really important social issues from the time, much better than Dickens! I studied a lot of Gaskell for my dissertation at Uni but never managed to visit her old house, despite living so close by! perhaps I'll do this on my next trip home to Manchester 🤍

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You should definitely do that! I love Gaskell’s social commentary and she is just a great storyteller!

[@Diaryofabooklover]

Hey Jack. I don't think I ever commented since I found your channel a couple of months ago. Just wanted to hop in here and say your love for books is really shining through the videos you're making. Also, you have the most calming voice ever, and it's a pleasure to just listen to you talk when I am stressed out of my mind with work. That's that. Thanks for the lovely videos :)

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[@CharlieBrookReads]

I just adore the Audrey app too🥰❤ I remember Black Beauty being on telly in the 80’s. I need to go look up the theme tune now!! Muppets for the win ALWAYS ❤️🧛🧛‍♂️🐴🐎🏇❤

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You will have the theme tune stuck in your head for days!

[@Ali-AvidReader]

Great video. I’ve just reread Cranford and thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I am going to have to reread Cranford at some point - I think it would definitely be a rewarding reread!

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I love the Audrey app! This was such a great video.

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Glad you enjoyed it! The app is marvellous - we need to spread the word!

[@Bookishtravels1]

Yaay for Christmas Carol 🎉

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Nearly that time of year again to read it!

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[@AbiofPellinor]

This is such a fun tag!

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It really was fun to do!

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[@SeekerSincere]

I enjoyed this video. Thank you.

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I am glad - thank you for watching!

[@AaronReadABook]

Good advise on spoilers. Even as an experienced Victorian literature reader, who hates spoilers, I got done over by a Penguin classic of Wives and Daughters this year because they tricked me by putting the spoiler in a footnote in the middle of the book. The rest of Sherlock Holmes is better than Study in Scarlet, more like the start and end and less of the middle bit.

[@spreadbookjoy]

Oh, no! That is the worst! Can't even trust a footnote! I am excited to hear that the rest of the Sherlock Holmes books are more like my favourite parts of ASiS. I read The Hound of the Baskervilles many years ago, so my memories of that are vague but I remember enjoying it. Looking forward to more!

[@MrRosebeing]

I'm not really a fan of Victorian literature, although I have partaken of it at times. H. G. Wells is probably my favourite author from that particular time period.

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@@MrRosebeing a great author! I read some HG Wells when I was younger - The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. What an imagination he had!

[@katiejlumsden]

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[@stuartgriffin1001]

I loved Buffy and read a lot of Anne Rice novels. I haven't read many Victorian novels. My favorite is Dracula. I read Carmilla in October. I was a little disappointed in it.

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Dracula is such a great book and probably where my love of vampire fiction springs from.

[@stuartgriffin1001]

@@spreadbookjoy It is one of the few book I read 3 times

[@scallydandlingaboutthebooks]

Black Beauty is too sad to reread. Choosing the first line of A Christmas Carol was inspired. Penguin Classics are particularly bad for spoilers in blurbs and introductions. I must look at Audrey now I am using audio books more.

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@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks I suspect adult me would find Black Beauty far more affecting than I did as a child! Do try Audrey - they are a tiny team doing wonderful work in a market place that is dominated by audible and I hope they continue to grow. They also have a free copy of Mrs Dalloway if you fancy trying something without committing.

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