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Leonie, the Typewriter

Leonie, the Typewriter by Wenona Gilman is available here as the complete text, split into 843 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Leonie, the Typewriter: A Romance of Actual Life by Wenona Gilman. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #54177.

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