Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse is available here as the complete text, split into 579 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments is presented in 12 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #2540, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 241 minutes of reading across 579 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
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- Record
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- Struggle
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- Between
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- Temperaments
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