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Tom Temple's Career

Tom Temple's Career by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 1018 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Tom Temple's Career by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #56686.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 39 chapters

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Tom Temple's Career

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  1. Chapter I 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 56 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 65 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #56686, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Tom Temple's Career take to read?

About 423 minutes of reading across 1018 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Nathan
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Middleton
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Street
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Plympton
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