Bardelys the Magnificent
Bardelys the Magnificent by Rafael Sabatini is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 906 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Bardelys the Magnificent Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #2389.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
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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
- Chapter XVIII Chapter 18
- Chapter XIX Chapter 19
- Chapter XX Chapter 20
- Chapter XXI Chapter 21
- Chapter XXII Chapter 22
This edition of Bardelys the Magnificent by Rafael Sabatini carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #2389, divided into 22 chapters and 906 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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About 377 minutes of reading across 906 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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