Dorothy Dale's Great Secret
Dorothy Dale's Great Secret by Margaret Penrose is available here as the complete text, split into 586 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Dorothy Dale's Great Secret by Margaret Penrose. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #41558.
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Dorothy Dale's Great Secret
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Tavia Has Plans
- Chapter III A Cup of Tea
- Chapter IV The Apparition
- Chapter V An Untimely Letter
- Chapter VI On the Lawn
- Chapter VII At Sunset Lake
- Chapter VIII A Lively Afternoon
- Chapter IX Dorothy and Tavia
- Chapter X Leaving Glenwood
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII Dorothy Is Worried
- Chapter XIII Little Urania
- Chapter XIV The Runaway
- Chapter XV A Spell of the “Glumps”
- Chapter XVI Dorothy in Buffalo
- Chapter XVII At the Play
- Chapter XVIII Behind the Scenes
- Chapter XIX The Clue
- Chapter XX Dorothy and the Manager
- Chapter XXI Adrift in a Strange City
- Chapter XXII In Dire Distress
- Chapter XXIII The Secret—conclusion
This edition of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret by Margaret Penrose carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #41558, divided into 23 chapters and 586 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.
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About 244 minutes of reading across 586 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Author
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- Dorothy
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- Glenwood
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