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Literature and Life (Complete)

Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1110 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3389.

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