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A cityless and countryless world

A cityless and countryless world by Henry Olerich is available here as the complete text, split into 1021 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

A cityless and countryless world by Henry Olerich. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #76123.

26 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 26 chapters

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A cityless and countryless world

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  1. Chapter I 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Midith’s Arrival--His Ideas of Our Earth 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III The Marsian Theory of Creation and Formation 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Home and Family 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Wealth 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Labor 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Interior of “Big-House.” 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII INTERIOR OF THE “BIG-HOUSE.” [_Continued._] 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Happiness and Truth 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Exterior of the “Big-House.” 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI EXTERIOR OF “BIG-HOUSE.” [_Continued._] 56 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Commercial and Mercantile Systems 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Money, or Medium of Exchange 103 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Some Connection Between Wealth, Labor, Commerce, 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Ownership of Land 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Government 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Money, or Medium of Exchange 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Comparison of Our Sex Relations with Yours 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX COMPARISON OF OUR SEX RELATION WITH YOURS. [_Continued._] 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX SEX RELATION. [_Concluded._] 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Education 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Education--the Different Branches 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 111 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Favorable News 37 readings five lines each Open chapter

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About 425 minutes of reading across 1021 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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