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The Lamp in the Desert

The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell is available here as the complete text, split into 2095 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #13763.

35 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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