A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac is available here as the complete text, split into 1155 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #1559, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 480 minutes of reading across 1155 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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- Distinguished
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Distinguished Provincial at Paris; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Provincial
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- Paris
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- Trilogy
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