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The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I

The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles Lever is available here as the complete text, split into 1417 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles Lever. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35441.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 40 chapters

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The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I

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  1. Chapter I 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Miss Mary Aune Dodd to Miss Doolan, of Ballydoolan 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Mrs. Dodd to Mistress Mary Gallagher, Dodsborough 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Betty Cobb to Mrs. Shusan O'shea, Priest's House, Bruff 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 50 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 70 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Mrs. Dodd to Mistress Mary Gallagher, Dodsborough 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Miss Dodd to Miss Doolan, of Ballydoolan 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Kenny I. Dodd to Thomas Purcell, Esq., of the Orange, Bruff 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Betty Cobb to Mrs. Shusan O'shea, Priest's House, Bruff 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Mrs. Dodd to Mistress Mary Gallagher 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 75 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 75 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Mrs. Dodd to Mrs. Mary Gallagher, Housekeeper, Dodsborough 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 94 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Miss Mary Anne Dodd to Miss Doolan, of Ballydoolan 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Mary Anne Dodd to Miss Doolan, of Ballydoolan 76 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Kenny James Dodd to Mr. Purcell, of the Grange, Bruff 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Kenny James Dodd to Thomas Purcell, Esq., of the Grange, Bruff 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Betty Cobb to Mrs. Shusan O'shea, Priest's House, Bruff 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 71 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL 32 readings five lines each Open chapter

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