Coniston — Complete
Coniston — Complete by Winston Churchill is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 2003 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Coniston — Complete by Winston Churchill. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3766.
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Coniston — Complete
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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
- Chapter XXIII Chapter 23
- Chapter XXIV Chapter 24
- Chapter XXV Chapter 25
- Chapter XXVI Chapter 26
- Chapter XXVII Chapter 27
- Chapter XXVIII Chapter 28
- Chapter XXIX Chapter 29
- Chapter XXX Chapter 30
- Chapter XXXI Chapter 31
- Chapter XXXII Chapter 32
- Chapter XXXIII Chapter 33
- Chapter XXXIV Chapter 34
- Chapter XXXV Chapter 35
This edition of Coniston — Complete by Winston Churchill carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #3766, divided into 35 chapters and 2003 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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