Michael Strogoff
Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne is available here as the complete text, split into 1110 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Michael Strogoff
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Russians and Tartars
- Chapter III Michael Strogoff Meets the Czar
- Chapter IV From Moscow to Nijni-Novgorod
- Chapter V The Two Announcements
- Chapter VI Brother and Sister
- Chapter VII Going Down the Volga
- Chapter VIII Going Up the Kama
- Chapter IX Day and Night in a Tarantass
- Chapter X A Storm in the Ural Mountains
- Chapter XI Travelers in Distress
- Chapter XII Provocation
- Chapter XIII Duty Before Everything
- Chapter XIV Mother and Son
- Chapter XV The Marshes of the Baraba
- Chapter XVI A Final Effort
- Chapter XVII The Rivals
- Chapter XVIII A Tartar Camp
- Chapter XIX Correspondents in Trouble
- Chapter XX Blow for Blow
- Chapter XXI The Triumphal Entry
- Chapter XXII “Look While You May!”
- Chapter XXIII A Friend on the Highway
- Chapter XXIV The Passage of the Yenisei
- Chapter XXV A Hare Crosses the Road
- Chapter XXVI In the Steppe
- Chapter XXVII Baikal and Angara
- Chapter XXVIII Between Two Banks
- Chapter XXIX Irkutsk
- Chapter XXX The Czar’s Courier
- Chapter XXXI The Night of the Fifth of October
- Chapter XXXII Conclusion
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