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Pharaoh's Broker

Pharaoh's Broker by Ellsworth Douglass is available here as the complete text, split into 725 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Ellsworth Douglass. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #25295.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

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