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The Martyrdom of Madeline

The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan is available here as the complete text, split into 1192 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55338.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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The Martyrdom of Madeline

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  1. Chapter I 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II A Dancing Lesson Under Difficulties 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III ‘Uncle’ Luke and ‘Uncle’ Mark 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Uncle Mark Parts with the Old Barge 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Uncle Mark Sails Up the Shining River 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Madeline Is About to Realise Her Dream 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Introduces a Distinguished Literary Bohemian 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Uncle Luke Is Broken-Hearted 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X The Hawk and the Dove 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Caged 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Madeline Awakes from Her Dream 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Darker Days 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Belleisle Spreads His Net 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV ‘Which Do You Pity?’ 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Imogen 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII The Harum-Scarums 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII A Painter’s Model 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX A Walk Across Hyde Park 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX Blanco Serena 76 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI White Bids a Last Farewell to Bohemia 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Madeline Changes Her Name 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Pupil of the Impeccable 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Adele Lambert 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV At the Countess Aurelia’s 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Gavrolles 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII In the Row 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Husband and Wife 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Old Journalism--and New 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX A Self-Constituted Champion 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Madeline Prepares for Flight 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII ‘Good-Bye!’ 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII ‘One More Unfortunate’ 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV Dust to Dust 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV ‘Resurgam.’ 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI The Sisters of Mount Eden 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Exit Gavrolles 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII On Boulogne Sands 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX An Old Picture 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL How Madeline Rose Again 17 readings five lines each Open chapter

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About 496 minutes of reading across 1192 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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