The Gates of Dawn
The Gates of Dawn by Fergus Hume is available here as the complete text, split into 883 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Gates of Dawn by Fergus Hume. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #56242.
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The Gates of Dawn
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Palmistry
- Chapter III Tithonus
- Chapter IV The Peacock in Jackdaw's Feathers
- Chapter V Tinker Tim
- Chapter VI The First Letter to a London Friend
- Chapter VII Diana of Farbis
- Chapter VIII The Recluse
- Chapter IX Village Gossip
- Chapter X Parson Jarner
- Chapter XI Farbis Court
- Chapter XII The Portrait in the Gallery
- Chapter XIII Under the Greenwood Tree
- Chapter XIV Dan's Secret
- Chapter XV Retrospection
- Chapter XVI Afternoon Tea
- Chapter XVII The Second Letter to a London Friend
- Chapter XVIII An Elizabethan Ancestor
- Chapter XIX The Pale Ladye
- Chapter XX In the Oak Parlour
- Chapter XXI The Days Pass By
- Chapter XXII A Dreamer of Dreams
- Chapter XXIII Parson Jarner Is Astonished
- Chapter XXIV A Woman Scorned
- Chapter XXV Jealousy
- Chapter XXVI Cupid in Arcady
- Chapter XXVII The Third Letter to a London Friend
- Chapter XXVIII Fire and Flame
- Chapter XXIX The Gipsy's Prophecy
- Chapter XXX The Final Letter to a London Friend
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Is this the complete text of The Gates of Dawn?
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Project Gutenberg eBook #56242, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 367 minutes of reading across 883 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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