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Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot

Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark is available here as the complete text, split into 886 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #12581, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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