Memories and Portraits
Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson is available here as the complete text, split into 335 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #381.
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Memories and Portraits
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- Chapter I The Foreigner at Home
- Chapter II Some College Memories {15}
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V An Old Scotch Gardener
- Chapter VI Pastoral
- Chapter VII The Manse
- Chapter VIII Memoirs of an Islet
- Chapter IX Thomas Stevenson—civil Engineer
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII The Character of Dogs
- Chapter XIII A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured
- Chapter XIV A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s
- Chapter XV A Gossip on Romance
- Chapter XVI A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE {168a}
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Is this the complete text of Memories and Portraits?
Yes. All 1671 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #381 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #381, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Memories and Portraits take to read?
About 139 minutes of reading across 335 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- House
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- Biggin
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- Recent
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- Books
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