The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns
The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns by Theodore Edward Hook is available here as the complete text, split into 1288 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Yes. All 6438 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #50401 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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About 536 minutes of reading across 1288 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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