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Lonesome Town

Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance is available here as the complete text, split into 998 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35819.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Project Gutenberg eBook #35819, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 415 minutes of reading across 998 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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