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On a Torn-Away World

On a Torn-Away World by Roy Rockwood is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 603 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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On a Torn-Away World by Roy Rockwood. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6468.

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