Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer is available here as the complete text, split into 401 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #21959.
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