Dame Care
Dame Care by Hermann Sudermann is available here as the complete text, split into 800 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Dame Care by Hermann Sudermann. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #8487.
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Dame Care
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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
This edition of Dame Care by Hermann Sudermann carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #8487, divided into 23 chapters and 800 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 333 minutes of reading across 800 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Dame Care
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- Meyerhofer
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- Estate
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Dame Care; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Auction
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- Third
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