Derelicts
Derelicts by William John Locke is available here as the complete text, split into 1181 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Derelicts by William John Locke. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55927.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Yvonne
- Chapter III In the Depths
- Chapter IV Dea Ex Machina
- Chapter V The Comic Muse
- Chapter VI Melpomene
- Chapter VII A Forlorn Hope
- Chapter VIII The Canon’s Angel
- Chapter IX Past, Present, and Future
- Chapter X Counsels of Perfection
- Chapter XI The Outcast Cousin
- Chapter XII Histoire de Revenant
- Chapter XIII Dis Aliter Visum
- Chapter XIV “In a Strange Land”
- Chapter XV Knight-Errant
- Chapter XVI La Cigale
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII Driftwood
- Chapter XIX Ferment
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI A Demand in Marriage
- Chapter XXII Seeking Salvation
- Chapter XXIII An End and a Beginning
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How long does Derelicts take to read?
About 491 minutes of reading across 1181 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Derelicts
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- Author
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- Samaria
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- Demagogue
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- Phayre
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