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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is available here as the complete text, split into 845 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4045.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

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  1. Chapter I Some Account of the Ship 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II A Scene in the Forecastle 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III We Touch at la Dominica 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV The Tattooers of la Dominica 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V A Sea-Parlour Described, with Some of Its Tenants 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Death and Burial of Two of the Crew 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Rope Yarn 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII We Encounter a Gale 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Tahiti 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X The Round Robin—visitors from Shore 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI The Consul’s Departure 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Outbreak of the Crew 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII We Enter the Harbour—jim the Pilot 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Reception from the Frenchman 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV They Take Us Ashore—what Happened There 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Proceedings of the French at Tahiti 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Life at the Calabooza 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII We Are Carried Before the Consul and Captain 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Little Julia Sails Without Us 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX We Take Unto Ourselves Friends 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Motoo-Otoo a Tahitian Casuist 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Missionary’s Sermon; with Some Reflections 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII How They Dress in Tahiti 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Same Subject Continued 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Wilson Gives Us the Cut—departure for Imeeo 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Farming in Polynesia 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII A Hunting Ramble with Zeke 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII The Second Hunt in the Mountains 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX The Murphies 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Preparing for the Journey 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI A Dance in the Valley 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The Hegira, or Flight 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII The Journey Round the Beach 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Cocoa-Palm 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV We Start for Taloo 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Our Reception in Partoowye 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII A Ramble Through the Settlement 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII A Party of Rovers—little Loo and the Doctor 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX Taloo Chapel—holding Court in Polynesia 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL We Visit the Court 31 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #4045, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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