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Mr. Marx's Secret

Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim is available here as the complete text, split into 1055 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39018.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Academic course · 40 chapters

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Mr. Marx's Secret

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  1. Chapter I 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III My Mother's Warning 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Ravenor of Ravenor 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V A Meeting and a Metamorphosis 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI An Abode of Mystery 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII The Cry in the Avenue 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX A Dark Corner in the Avenue 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X A Meeting in the Coffee-Room 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI A Tete-a-Tete Dinner 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Miss Mabel Fay 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII At Midnight on the Moor 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV A Strange Attack 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV A Message from the Dead 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI For Life 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII My Guardian 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX A Lost Photograph 65 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX "As Rome Does." 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI A Dinner-Party Sub Rosa 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 66 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV A Gleam of Light 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV An Invitation 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI A Metamorphosis 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII My Ride 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX My Mission 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI About Town 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII A Midnight Excursion to the Suburbs 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII A Brush with the Police 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV Light at Last 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI I Meet My Father 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Dawn 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX A Raid 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL The End of It 23 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #39018, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Mr. Marx's Secret take to read?

About 439 minutes of reading across 1055 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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