Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 685 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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About 285 minutes of reading across 685 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Kaspar
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