The Bishop's Apron
"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
Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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| Play 01 | Chapter I | Lee Smalley |
00:19:43 |
| Play 02 | Chapter II | Lee Smalley |
00:23:51 |
| Play 03 | Chapter III | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 04 | Chapter IV | Lee Smalley |
00:17:06 |
| Play 05 | Chapter V | Lee Smalley |
00:23:48 |
| Play 06 | Chapter VI | Lee Smalley |
00:38:54 |
| Play 07 | Chapter VII | Lee Smalley |
00:22:58 |
| Play 08 | Chapter VIII | Lee Smalley |
00:16:39 |
| Play 09 | Chapter IX | Lee Smalley |
00:23:14 |
| Play 10 | Chapter X | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 11 | Chapter XI | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 12 | Chapter XII | Lee Smalley |
00:22:58 |
| Play 13 | Chapter XIII | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 14 | Chapter XIV | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 15 | Chapter XV | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 16 | Chapter XVI | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 17 | Chapter XVII | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 18 | Chapter XVIII | Lee Smalley |
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| Play 19 | Chapters XIX & XX | Lee Smalley |
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