Miss or Mrs.?
Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins is available here as the complete text, split into 464 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Miss or Mrs.?
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This edition of Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1621, divided into 11 chapters and 464 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, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #1621, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 193 minutes of reading across 464 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Miss or Mrs.?
Words and structures a reader meets early in Miss or Mrs.?, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Persons
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- Story
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- Joseph
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- Graybrooke
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