The Bishop's Apron: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Bishop's Apron by W. Somerset Maugham: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 19 original MP3 tracks, 6:35:01 running time and a link to listen.
The Bishop's Apron, credited to W. Somerset Maugham, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Bishop's Apron by W. Somerset Maugham. Read in English by Lee Smalley "Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore Spratte, a cleric, motivated by an obsessive desire to be elevated to bishop, embellishes his family history and intrudes upon his son's and daughter's courtships. A reviewer in 1906 wrote, "The whole book is an admirable blend of cynical gaiety and broadly farcical comedy; it is the smartest and most genuinely humorous novel that the season has yet given us." -- Lee Smalley
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Bishop's Apron
- Author credits: W. Somerset Maugham
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 19
- Listed recording duration: 6:35:01
Catalogue topics
- general fiction
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I — 19:43
- 02 - Chapter II — 23:51
- 03 - Chapter III — 8:01
- 04 - Chapter IV — 17:06
- 05 - Chapter V — 23:48
- 06 - Chapter VI — 38:54
- 07 - Chapter VII — 22:58
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 16:39
- 09 - Chapter IX — 23:14
- 10 - Chapter X — 13:23
- 11 - Chapter XI — 27:06
- 12 - Chapter XII — 22:58
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 17:49
- 14 - Chapter XIV — 28:20
- 15 - Chapter XV — 18:56
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 18:46
- 17 - Chapter XVII — 13:39
- 18 - Chapter XVIII — 8:43
- 19 - Chapters XIX & XX — 31:07
Listen to this recording
Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.
Source and rights
This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.
Sources
More in Books & Authors
Keep reading
