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Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks is available here as the complete text, split into 480 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #24914.

6 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 6 chapters

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