Joan Thursday: A Novel
Joan Thursday: A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance is available here as the complete text, split into 1357 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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This edition of Joan Thursday: A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #36502, divided into 17 chapters and 1357 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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