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Helena Brett's Career

Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke is available here as the complete text, split into 836 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #33103.

29 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 29 chapters

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Helena Brett's Career

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  1. Chapter I 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 70 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 23 readings five lines each Open chapter

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About 348 minutes of reading across 836 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Dutton
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Gratitude
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These
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Thin-skinned
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