The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In the genteel Cornish harbor town of Troy - a thinly veiled portrait of Fowey - respectability is measured by a single shibboleth: being 'cumeelfo' (as Troy pronounces comme il faut). Into this snug world of drawing-room evenings, gossip, and small tyrannies comes a thrilling disturbance: the arrival of the apparently aristocratic Frederic and Geraldine Goodwyn-Sandys, tenants of the house called The Bower across from the prim Misses Limpenny and the blustering Admiral Hornaby Buzza. Their glamour dazzles the town's self-appointed elite, even as quiet rivalries, infatuations, and moral posturing begin to surface. Meanwhile Philip Fogo - absent-minded, wounded by an old love, and seeking solitude - arrives by train and is promptly mistaken for the newcomer, only to slip away upriver to rent the secluded Kit's House with the help of the dockworker Caleb Trotter and the plainspoken Dearlove family. As Troy's 'best' society strains to imitate its fashionable guests, Fogo is drawn back toward community and conscience, and a darker undercurrent gathers around the visitors' secrets and a dangerous cargo expected in the harbor.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:44) Chapter 01

(00:12:40) Chapter 02

(00:24:59) Chapter 03

(00:37:29) Chapter 04

(00:53:39) Chapter 05

(01:05:07) Chapter 06

(01:22:11) Chapter 07

(01:36:33) Chapter 08

(01:51:59) Chapter 09

(02:10:42) Chapter 10

(02:28:54) Chapter 11

(02:56:18) Chapter 12

(03:16:29) Chapter 13

(03:33:57) Chapter 14

(03:56:18) Chapter 15

(04:14:00) Chapter 16

(04:26:05) Chapter 17

(04:40:34) Chapter 18

(05:00:56) Chapter 19

(05:21:49) Chapter 20

(05:36:56) Chapter 21

(05:49:02) Chapter 22

(06:01:49) Chapter 23

(06:15:31) Chapter 24

(06:33:59) Chapter 25

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