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Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 885 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #78.

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Academic course · 28 chapters

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Questions about reading Tarzan of the Apes

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