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Knock at a Venture

Knock at a Venture by Eden Phillpotts is available here as the complete text, split into 824 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Knock at a Venture by Eden Phillpotts. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #61549.

35 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 35 chapters

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Knock at a Venture

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