A Mummer's Wife
A Mummer's Wife by George Moore is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1385 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Mummer's Wife by George Moore. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #7508.
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A Mummer's Wife
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
- Chapter XV Chapter 15
- Chapter XVI Chapter 16
- Chapter XVII Chapter 17
This edition of A Mummer's Wife by George Moore carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #7508, divided into 17 chapters and 1385 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.
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Is this the complete text of A Mummer's Wife?
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Project Gutenberg eBook #7508, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 577 minutes of reading across 1385 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in A Mummer's Wife
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- Sunset
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- Often
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- Finds
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- Himself
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