Lord Tony's Wife
Lord Tony's Wife by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy is available here as the complete text, split into 912 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35117.
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Lord Tony's Wife
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This edition of Lord Tony's Wife by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #35117, divided into 20 chapters and 912 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #35117, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 380 minutes of reading across 912 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Lord Tony's Wife
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- Author
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- Scarlet
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- Pimpernel
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- Laughing
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