Margarita's Soul
Margarita's Soul by Josephine Daskam Bacon is available here as the complete text, split into 836 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #26277.
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Margarita's Soul
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
This edition of Margarita's Soul by Josephine Daskam Bacon carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #26277, divided into 32 chapters and 836 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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About 348 minutes of reading across 836 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Walks
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