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Joseph and His Friend

Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor is available here as the complete text, split into 1144 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #54863.

33 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 33 chapters

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Joseph and His Friend

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  1. Chapter I 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter

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About 476 minutes of reading across 1144 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Joseph
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Rachel
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Miller
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Little
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