The Elevator
The Elevator by William Dean Howells is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 0 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Elevator by William Dean Howells. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3401.
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