The Serious Family by Morris Barnett audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Set in the drawing rooms of Victorian society, The Serious Family is a sharp comedy of manners that punctures the respectable facade of the Torrens household. Mr. Charles Torrens prides himself on order, propriety, and the image of unimpeachable domestic virtue, but the atmosphere in his home is already brittle, crowded with watchful relatives, eager advisers, and a steady hum of judgment from the outside world. Into this carefully managed scene strides Captain Murphy Maguire, a charmingly reckless visitor whose presence threatens to turn polite conversation into open scandal. As the family scrambles to control what is said, seen, and suspected, the house becomes a stage for hurried cover stories, shifting alliances, and moral posturing that says more about social ambition than genuine principle. With a lively cast that includes the smooth-talking Mr. Amindab Sleek, the observant Emma Torrens, and the formidable Mrs. Ormsby Delmaine, Barnett builds a fast-moving tangle of misunderstandings and pressures, asking what respectability is worth when it is mainly a performance. The result is a spirited satire of hypocrisy, reputation, and the absurd lengths people will go to in order to appear serious.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:39:45) Chapter 2

(01:07:39) Chapter 3

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