Recollections of Captain Wilkie
Recollections of Captain Wilkie by Arthur Conan Doyle is available here as the complete text, split into 66 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Recollections of Captain Wilkie: A Story of an Old Offender by Arthur Conan Doyle. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #66088.
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About 27 minutes of reading across 66 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Story
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- Offender
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- Conan
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- Doyle
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