New Grub Street
New Grub Street by George Gissing is available here as the complete text, split into 2619 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
New Grub Street by George Gissing. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1709.
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- Chapter I A Man of His Day
- Chapter II The House of Yule
- Chapter III Holiday
- Chapter IV An Author and His Wife
- Chapter V The Way Hither
- Chapter VI The Practical Friend
- Chapter VII To the Winning Side
- Chapter VIII Invita Minerva
- Chapter IX The Friends of the Family
- Chapter X Respite
- Chapter XI Work Without Hope
- Chapter XII A Warning
- Chapter XIII Recruits
- Chapter XIV The Last Resource
- Chapter XV Rejection
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII The Old Home
- Chapter XVIII The Past Revived
- Chapter XIX The End of Waiting
- Chapter XX Mr Yule Leaves Town
- Chapter XXI The Legatees
- Chapter XXII A Proposed Investment
- Chapter XXIII Jasper’s Magnanimity
- Chapter XXIV A Fruitless Meeting
- Chapter XXV Married Woman’s Property
- Chapter XXVI Interim
- Chapter XXVII Catastrophe
- Chapter XXVIII Waiting on Destiny
- Chapter XXIX A Rescue and a Summons
- Chapter XXX Reardon Becomes Practical
- Chapter XXXI The Sunny Way
- Chapter XXXII A Check
- Chapter XXXIII Fever and Rest
- Chapter XXXIV Jasper’s Delicate Case
- Chapter XXXV Rewards
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- Milvains
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- Breakfast
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- Wattleborough
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