Length7h 12m
About this audiobook
This is an absolutely delightful book, very funny indeed. (Goodreads) Excerpt: "The ancient port of Sunwich was basking in the sunshine of a July afternoon. A rattle of cranes and winches sounded from the shipping in the harbour, but the town itself was half asleep. Somnolent shopkeepers in dim back parlours coyly veiled their faces in red handkerchiefs from the too ardent flies, while small boys left in charge notice listlessly the slow passing of time as recorded by the church clock It is a fine church, and Sunwich is proud of it. The tall grey tower is a landmark at sea, but from the narrow streets of the little town itself it has a disquieting appearance of rising suddenly above the roofs huddled beneath it for the purpose of displaying a black-faced clock with gilt numerals whose mellow chimes have recorded the passing hours for many generations of Sunwich men Regardless of the heat, which indeed was mild compared with that which raged in his own bosom, Captain Nugent, fresh from the inquiry of the collision of his ship Conqueror with the German barque Hans Muller, strode rapidly up the High Street in the direction of home. An honest seafaring smell, compounded of tar, rope, and fish, known to the educated of Sunwich as ozone, set his thoughts upon the sea. He longed to be aboard ship again, with the Court of Inquiry to form part of his crew. In all his fifty years of life he had never met such a collection of fools. His hard blue eyes blazed as he thought of them, and the mouth hidden by his well-kept beard was set with anger."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (15)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 11, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
14CHAPTER XIII
2CHAPTER I
15CHAPTER XIV
3CHAPTER II
16CHAPTER XV
4CHAPTER III
17CHAPTER XVI
5CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER XVII
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6CHAPTER V
19CHAPTER XVIII
7CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER XIX
8CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER XX
9CHAPTER VIII
22CHAPTER XXI
10CHAPTER IX
23CHAPTER XXII
11CHAPTER X
24CHAPTER XXIII
12CHAPTER XI
25CHAPTER XXIV
13CHAPTER XII
26CHAPTER XXV
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