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Frank Merriwell's First Job

Frank Merriwell's First Job by Burt L. Standish is available here as the complete text, split into 915 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Frank Merriwell's First Job by Burt L. Standish. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #64635.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 36 chapters

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Frank Merriwell's First Job

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Project Gutenberg eBook #64635, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 381 minutes of reading across 915 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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