Micah Clarke
Micah Clarke by Arthur Conan Doyle is available here as the complete text, split into 1711 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Arthur Conan Doyle. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #9504.
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- Chapter I Of my going to school and of my coming thence
- Chapter II Of Two Friends of my Youth
- Chapter III Of the Strange Fish that we Caught at Spithead
- Chapter IV Of the Man with the Drooping Lids
- Chapter V Of the Letter that came from the Lowlands
- Chapter VI Of the Horseman who rode from the West
- Chapter VII Of our Start for the Wars
- Chapter VIII Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar
- Chapter IX Of our Perilous Adventure on the Plain
- Chapter X Of the Lonely Man and the Gold Chest
- Chapter XI Of certain Passages upon the Moor
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock
- Chapter XIV Of our Brush with the King’s Dragoons
- Chapter XV Of our Coming to Taunton
- Chapter XVI Of the Gathering in the Market-square
- Chapter XVII Of Master Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton
- Chapter XVIII Of a Brawl in the Night
- Chapter XIX Of the Muster of the Men of the West
- Chapter XX Of my Hand-grips with the Brandenburger
- Chapter XXI Of the News from Havant
- Chapter XXII Of the Snare on the Weston Road
- Chapter XXIII Of the Welcome that met me at Badminton
- Chapter XXIV Of Strange Doings in the Boteler Dungeon
- Chapter XXV Of the Strife in the Council
- Chapter XXVI Of the Affair near Keynsham Bridge
- Chapter XXVII Of the Fight in Wells Cathedral
- Chapter XXVIII Of the Great Cry from the Lonely House
- Chapter XXIX Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI Of the Onfall at Sedgemoor
- Chapter XXXII Of my Perilous Adventure at the Mill
- Chapter XXXIII Of the Coming of Solomon Sprent
- Chapter XXXIV Of the Devil in Wig and Gown
- Chapter XXXV Of the End of it All
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