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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame by Geoffrey Chaucer is available here as the complete text, split into 4101 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Geoffrey Chaucer19 chapters

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame by Geoffrey Chaucer. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #45027.

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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame

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  1. Chapter I 434 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 81 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 94 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 707 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Legend of Medea 323 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 229 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 80 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Apollo, aid me to write this last book! My rime is artless; I aim 107 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 140 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 725 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 291 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII § 5, l. 5. _the remenant_, &c. i.e. the rest of this line (drawn, 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX § 1. Rubric, _hir cours_. The gender of the sun was feminine in 789 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame is presented in 19 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #45027, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 4101 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Prologue
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Legend
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