Chapter 13 of New Arabian Nights is here in full — 115 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of New Arabian Nights is here in full — 115 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed. “This is unprecedented,” observed Léon. “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven! And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour. Elvira, my heart misgives me.
Chapter 13 of New Arabian Nights is here in full — 115 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/23 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
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From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
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From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
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From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
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From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
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From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
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From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
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From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
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From this reading Elvira, my heart misgives me.
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From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Elvira, my heart misgives me.
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From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
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From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
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From this reading “This is unprecedented,” observed Léon.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “This is unprecedented,” observed Léon.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Elvira, my heart misgives me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “An inn closed by five minutes after eleven!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Elvira, my heart misgives me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Elvira, my heart misgives me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “This is unprecedented,” observed Léon.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “This is unprecedented,” observed Léon.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “This is unprecedented,” observed Léon.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The “Black Head” presented not a single chink of light upon the street, and the carriage gate was closed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And there were several commercial travellers in the café up to a late hour.
Chapter 13 of New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson holds 115 sentences, grouped into 23 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 13 holds 115 sentences of New Arabian Nights, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 13 of New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 115 sentences, grouped into 23 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 23 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 23 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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