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Confessions of a Young Lady

Confessions of a Young Lady by Richard Marsh is available here as the complete text, split into 1386 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings by Richard Marsh. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40354.

21 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 21 chapters

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Confessions of a Young Lady

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  1. Chapter I 749 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 88 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Apostle Spoons 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Under the Spell 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV A Curious Courtship 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV His Aunt Explains 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Flight 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII The Woman Who Met Her 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII A House of Thieves 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Out of the Frying-Pan 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX Into the Fire 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Afterwards 2 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Rather than presenting Confessions of a Young Lady as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1386 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 21 chapters.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #40354, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Confessions of a Young Lady take to read?

About 577 minutes of reading across 1386 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Confessions of a Young Lady

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Beetle
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Small
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Curiosity
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Least
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