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Doctor Hathern's daughters

Doctor Hathern's daughters by Mary Jane Holmes is available here as the complete text, split into 1393 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Doctor Hathern's daughters by Mary Jane Holmes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #70883.

38 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Academic course · 38 chapters

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Doctor Hathern's daughters

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  1. Chapter I 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 71 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 59 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 69 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 55 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 96 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 78 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV On the Road to London 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 88 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 88 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Doctor Hathern's daughters is presented in 38 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

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About 580 minutes of reading across 1393 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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