Carnac's Folly, Complete
Carnac's Folly, Complete by Gilbert Parker is available here as the complete text, split into 973 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I Eleven Years Pass
- Chapter II Carnac's Return
- Chapter III The House on the Hill
- Chapter IV Carnac as Manager
- Chapter V Luke Tarboe Has an Offer
- Chapter VI "At Our Price?"
- Chapter VII John Grier Makes Another Offer
- Chapter VIII The Puzzle
- Chapter IX Denzil Tells His Story
- Chapter X Carnac's Talk with His Mother
- Chapter XI Carnac Says Good-Bye
- Chapter XII Carnac's Return
- Chapter XIII The House of the Three Trees
- Chapter XIV Carnac and Junia
- Chapter XV John Grier Makes a Journey
- Chapter XVI The Reading of the Will
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII Carnac Becomes a Candidate
- Chapter XIX Junia and Tarboe Hear the News
- Chapter XX The Secret Meeting
- Chapter XXI Point to Point
- Chapter XXII The Man Who Would Not
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI Exit
- Chapter XXVII A Woman Writes a Letter
- Chapter XXVIII Carnac and His Mother
- Chapter XXIX Tarboe Has a Dream
- Chapter XXX This Way Home
- Chapter XXXI "Halves, Pardner, Halves"
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- Eleven
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