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Dr. Wainwright's Patient: A Novel

Dr. Wainwright's Patient: A Novel by Edmund Yates is available here as the complete text, split into 1138 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Dr. Wainwright's Patient: A Novel by Edmund Yates. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #60651.

32 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 32 chapters

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Dr. Wainwright's Patient: A Novel

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  1. Chapter I 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 76 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #60651, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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Vocabulary met early in Dr. Wainwright's Patient: A Novel

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Wainwright's
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Patient
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Author
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Black
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