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Under the Red Dragon: A Novel

Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant is available here as the complete text, split into 1010 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #53874.

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Under the Red Dragon: A Novel

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  1. Chapter I 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II By EXPRESS 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Winny and Dora Lloyd 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Three Graces 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Pique 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Initials 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII A Perilous Ramble 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII On the Cliffs 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX A Proposal 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X What the Moon Saw 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI The Secret Engagement 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Guilfoyle 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Two Loves for One Heart 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Georgette Franklin's Story 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Bitter Thoughts 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Surprises 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Reconciliation 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX On Board the Urgent 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX News of Battle 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Under Canvas 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Flag of Truce 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Night Before Inkermann 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV The Fifth of November 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV The Camp Again 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI A Mail from England 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII The Caravanserai 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII The Tchernimorski Cossacks 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX The Castle of Yalta 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Evil Tidings 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Valerie Volhonski 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The Threats of Tolstoff 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Caught at Last 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV Flight 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV News from Craigaderyn 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI The Assault 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII A Sunday Morning in the Crimea 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII In the Monastery of St. George 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX "A Dream Which Was Not All a Dream." 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL A Honeymoon 29 readings five lines each Open chapter

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