Representative Plays by American Dramatists
Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell is available here as the complete text, split into 774 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #25565, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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- Philadelphia
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- February
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- Performance
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- Lyric
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