Wait and Hope
Wait and Hope by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 839 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Wait and Hope by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #33591.
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Wait and Hope
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII
- Chapter XXXIV
- Chapter XXXV
- Chapter XXXVI
- Chapter XXXVII
- Chapter XXXVIII
This edition of Wait and Hope by Horatio, Jr. Alger carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #33591, divided into 38 chapters and 839 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, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.
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- Horatio
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- Alger
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