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St. Bernard's

St. Bernard's by Edward Berdoe is available here as the complete text, split into 692 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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St. Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical Student by Edward Berdoe. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #46431.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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