![Book Cover of Master Humphrey's Clock](/image/book/master-humphreys-clock.webp)
Master Humphrey's Clock
'Master Humphrey's Clock' Summary
Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a little club, called Master Humphrey's Clock, where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others. The members include Master Humphrey; a deaf gentleman; Jack Redburn; retired merchant Owen Miles; and Mr. Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers. A mirror club in the kitchen, Mr. Weller's Watch, run by Mr. Weller, has members including Humphrey's maid, the barber and Sam Weller.
Master Humphrey's Clock appeared after The Old Curiosity Shop, to introduce Barnaby Rudge. After Barnaby Rudge, Master Humphrey is left by himself by the chimney corner in a train of thoughts. Here, the deaf gentleman continues the narration. Later, the deaf gentleman and his friends return to Humphrey's house to find him dead. Humphrey has left money for the barber and the maid (no doubt by traces of love that they would be married). Redburn and the deaf gentleman look after the house and the club closes for good.
In the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop, Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is the character referred to as the 'single gentleman' in that story.
Book Details
Language
EnglishOriginal Language
EnglishPublished In
1840Author
![Charles Dickens image](/thumbs/image/author/charles-dickens.webp)
Charles Dickens
England
Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 18...
More on Charles DickensDownload eBooks
Listen/Download Audiobook
- Select Speed
Related books
![Three Short Works Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/three-short-works.webp)
Three Short Works by Gustave Flaubert
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a m...
![A Damsel in Distress Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/a-damsel-in-distress.webp)
A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 4 October 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the Un...
![Audrey Craven Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/audrey-craven.webp)
Audrey Craven by May Sinclair
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undeserved repu...
![The Dream of the Red Chamber Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/the-dream-of-the-red-chamber.webp)
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Xueqin Cao
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of...
![Bertram Cope's Year Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/bertram-copes-year.webp)
Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram...
![Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/thy-soul-shall-bear-witness.webp)
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! by Selma Lagerlof
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! is a 1912 novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It was translated into English by William Frederick Harvey in 1921....
![Jean-Christophe In Paris Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/jean-christophe-in-paris.webp)
Jean-Christophe In Paris by Romain Rolland
The story follows the protagonist, a musician named Jean-Christophe Krafft, as he moves to Paris to pursue his career. Jean-Christophe is torn between...
![Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/over-the-hills-and-far-away-a-story-of-new-zealand.webp)
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand by Charlotte Evans
A young woman leaves her home in England to start a new life in New Zealand, but she soon finds that the journey is more than she bargained for. Syno...
![A Daughter of the Snows Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/a-daughter-of-the-snows.webp)
A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie"...
![The Hundredth Chance Cover image](/thumbs/image/book/the-hundredth-chance.webp)
The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell
It tells the story of a young woman's journey to find love and redemption. First published in 1917, the book explores themes of family, forgiveness, a...
Reviews for Master Humphrey's Clock
No reviews posted or approved, yet...