The Lame Lover: A Comedy in Three Acts
The Lame Lover: A Comedy in Three Acts by Samuel Foote is available here as the complete text, split into 300 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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The Lame Lover: A Comedy in Three Acts
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Project Gutenberg eBook #49602, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 124 minutes of reading across 300 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Lame Lover: A Comedy in Three Acts
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- Three
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- Performed
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- Theatre-royal
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- Hay-market
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