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An Outback Marriage

An Outback Marriage by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 799 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson28 chapters

An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6119.

28 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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About 332 minutes of reading across 799 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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