Tattered Tom
Tattered Tom by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 718 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Tattered Tom by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #54006.
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Tattered Tom
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- Chapter I Introduces Tattered Tom
- Chapter II Tom Gets a Square Meal
- Chapter III Caught in the Act
- Chapter IV The Siege
- Chapter V Tom Gains a Victory
- Chapter VI An Unfashionable Hotel
- Chapter VII Tom Makes a Friend
- Chapter VIII At French’s Hotel
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X Tom Drops Her Tatters
- Chapter XI The Mistakes of a Morning
- Chapter XII The Vanquished Bully
- Chapter XIII Granny Is Compelled to Earn Her Own Living
- Chapter XIV Tom Is Captured by the Enemy
- Chapter XV Granny Reads Something to Her Advantage
- Chapter XVI Tom in Trouble
- Chapter XVII The Gold Pencil
- Chapter XVIII In Search of a Place
- Chapter XIX The Old Apple-Woman
- Chapter XX Tom Speculates in Gold
- Chapter XXI Tom Falls into the Enemy’s Hands
- Chapter XXII The Lawyer and His Client
- Chapter XXIII How Granny and Tom Became Separated
- Chapter XXIV Tom’s Adventures
- Chapter XXV Tom Finds Her Mother
- Chapter XXVI Conclusion
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- Frederic
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- Pelham
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- Young
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- Gentleman
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