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A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories

A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne is available here as the complete text, split into 789 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #28657.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Academic course · 39 chapters

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A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories

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  1. Chapter I 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV In Which the Commissary Passauf Enters as Noisily as Unexpectedly 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII In Which the Andantes Become Allegros, and the Allegros Vivaces 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX In Which the Ancient and Solemn German Waltz Becomes a Whirlwind 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 1 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII In Which the Quiquendonians Adopt a Heroic Resolution 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII In Which Doctor Ox’s Theory Is Explained 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX A Winter Night 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The Pride of Science 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI A Strange Visit 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Church of Saint Pierre 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Hour of Death 149 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV The Black Flag 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Jean Cornbutte’s Project 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI A Ray of Hope 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII In the Passes 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Liverpool Island 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX The Quaking of the Ice 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Settling for the Winter 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Plan of the Explorations 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The House of Snow 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Buried Alive 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV A Cloud of Smoke 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV The Return to the Ship 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI The Two Rivals 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Distress 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII The White Bears 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX Conclusion 96 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Father
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Worthy
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Madame
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