The Lure of the Mississippi
The Lure of the Mississippi by D. (Dietrich) Lange is available here as the complete text, split into 590 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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The Lure of the Mississippi
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II On Board the _Fanny Harris_
- Chapter III In Great Anxiety
- Chapter IV Plain Talk and Ugly Rumors
- Chapter V The Breaking of the Storm
- Chapter VI Through a Deserted Land
- Chapter VII Dangerous Traveling
- Chapter VIII On the Great River
- Chapter IX After the Wreck
- Chapter X Hunting Bees and Driving Fish
- Chapter XI Catching a Monster
- Chapter XII After Wild Geese
- Chapter XIII In a Winter Camp
- Chapter XIV Fishing Through the Ice
- Chapter XV Signs of Spring
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII Smelling the Storm
- Chapter XVIII Southward at Last
- Chapter XIX In the Sunken Lands
- Chapter XX Past Island Number Ten
- Chapter XXI On to Vicksburg
- Chapter XXII Wherein Old Enemies Meet
- Chapter XXIII The Old Trapper’s Secret
- Chapter XXIV The Last Days of Vicksburg
This edition of The Lure of the Mississippi by D. (Dietrich) Lange carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #41877, divided into 24 chapters and 590 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #41877, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Lure of the Mississippi take to read?
About 245 minutes of reading across 590 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Lure of the Mississippi
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- Boston
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- Lothrop
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- Shepard
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- Norwood
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