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Amusing Prose Chap-Books

Amusing Prose Chap-Books by Robert Hays [Editor] Cunningham is available here as the complete text, split into 766 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Robert Hays [Editor] Cunningham40 chapters

Amusing prose chap-books by Robert Hays [Editor] Cunningham. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36517.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 40 chapters

Course Syllabus

This syllabus gives direct access to every published chapter and its complete sequence of five-line English readings.

Amusing Prose Chap-Books

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0 of 749 original contextual illustrations are live; remaining readings use the book cover while their artwork is reviewed.

  1. Chapter I 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 52 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 105 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 98 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 81 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL 6 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #36517, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 319 minutes of reading across 766 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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