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The Wyvern mystery

The Wyvern mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is available here as the complete text, split into 0 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu40 chapters

The Wyvern mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #68569.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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  1. Chapter I 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II The Grange 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV The Old Squire Unlike Himself 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V The Squire’s Eldest Son Comes Home 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI In Which the Squire Loses His Gold-Headed Cane 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Home 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII The Omen of Carwell Grange 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX A Letter 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Harry Arrives 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Mildred Tarnley’s Warning Story 59 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Coming In 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Harry Appears at the Grange 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV The Trout 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV The Visitor 58 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Lilly Dogger Is Sent to Bed 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Through the House 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII The Bell Rings 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX News from Cressley Common 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Restless 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Unreasonable Bertha 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV An Abduction 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Day--Twilight--Darkness 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII The Wykeford Doctor 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Harry Drinks a Glass and Spills a Glass 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Home to Wyvern 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI The Heir of the Fairfields 65 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Sergeant-Major Archdale 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII A Talk with the Squire 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV A Drive to Twyford 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV How Fares the Child? 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Marjory Trevellian 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII An Old Friend 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII Tom Orange 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The March to Noulton Farm 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL A Silent Farewell 68 readings five lines each Open chapter

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