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And I perfectly understand why Dumas chose
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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

And I perfectly understandwhy Dumas chose to incarceratehis main character on that island...

And I perfectly understand
why Dumas chose to incarcerate
his main character on that island for 14 years, because as a reader,
you root for him to escape

Full Transcript

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And I perfectly understand why Dumas chose
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to incarcerate his main character
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on that island for 14 years,
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because as a reader, you root for him to escape.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:27
Uploaded
May 21, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary
Production
Storyvault Films

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Movie Summary

Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that inspired their novels.
S01 • E03 I remember a white sheet fell off the line - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
I remember a white sheet fell off the line
S01 • E01 "In fact, I've come to believe, in my delirium, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
"In fact, I've come to believe, in my delirium,
S01 • E02 And for anybody who's innocent, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:14
And for anybody who's innocent,
S01 • E03 Richard narrates: In spite of the lack - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
Richard narrates: In spite of the lack
S01 • E01 "Meanwhile, Sophie is practically in tears over hers. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
"Meanwhile, Sophie is practically in tears over hers.
S01 • E03 He also conjures up a garden of earthly delights. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
He also conjures up a garden of earthly delights.
S01 • E01 "She's begging me, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
"She's begging me,
S01 • E03 "A couple of terraces below the house was to be found - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
"A couple of terraces below the house was to be found
S01 • E02 While we're on the subject of escape, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:15
While we're on the subject of escape,
S01 • E01 "'Why did we even bother eating food at all in Stockholm?'" - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
"'Why did we even bother eating food at all in Sto...
S01 • E03 "A torrent of water that rushed out from a rock - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
"A torrent of water that rushed out from a rock
S01 • E03 "I sat in the pool and poured bucketful after bucketful - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
"I sat in the pool and poured bucketful after bucketful
S01 • E03 "Without needing to put shoes or clothes on, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:10
"Without needing to put shoes or clothes on,
S01 • E02 Once a winter destination, in the 1920s, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
Once a winter destination, in the 1920s,
S01 • E03 "I cooled them in the waterfall - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:21
"I cooled them in the waterfall
S01 • E02 Among them was the great novelist - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:13
Among them was the great novelist
S01 • E03 I think that people do really have a fundamental longing - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
I think that people do really have a fundamental longing
S01 • E02 The Fitzgeralds stayed at what is now - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
The Fitzgeralds stayed at what is now
S01 • E02 Although considerably smaller, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
Although considerably smaller,
S01 • E03 I mean, the place where we're sitting here now, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
I mean, the place where we're sitting here now,