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Somehow this all seems familiar

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

March 7, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I don’t remember how I heard about The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, but I saw it on a library shelf not long after I heard about it, so of course I had to check it out (pun intended). The story concentrates on two brothers, Rob the older from whose perspective the story comes, and Charley the younger, genius of the sort who finished a PhD and publishes an academic book on Dickens at the age of nineteen. There is the usual kind of brotherly […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Books, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, dorian gray, h.g. parry, the unlikely escape of uriah heep, Victorian

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Books, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, dorian gray, h.g. parry, the unlikely escape of uriah heep, Victorian ·
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

May 17, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

We are coming to the end of the school year. It might not seem that way because it’s still April, but the last day of school is June 15. Graduation is June 5th, Senior exam week is the previous week, and because Seniors can be exempt from exams, their last day is May 25. AND! because we’re about to enter into the weeks of AP tests and state-wide tests (NONE of which I have to prepare for this year–mine were back in January) I have […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:148 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield ·
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