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Redburn. His First Voyage

Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville is available here as the complete text, split into 738 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy by Herman Melville. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #8118.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Redburn. His First Voyage

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  1. Chapter I Redburn’s Departure from Home 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV He Gets to Sea and Feels Very Bad 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII He Helps Wash the Decks, and Then Goes to Breakfast 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like It; but Changes His Mind 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI The Cook and Steward 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII A Narrow Escape 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV The Highlander Passes a Wreck 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious Young Lady 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Quarter-Deck Furniture 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII A Sailor a Jack of All Trades 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll Through the Town 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI The Docks 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Irrawaddy 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV What Redburn Saw in Launcelott’s-Hey 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV The Booble-Alleys of the Town 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Placards, Brass-Jewelers, Truck-Horses, and Steamers 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII His Adventure with the _Cross_ Old Gentleman 2 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn, and Carries Him Off to London 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX A Mysterious Night in London 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI A Living Corpse 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Carlo 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII The Emigrants 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Emigrants’ Kitchen 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV Some Superior Old Nail-Rod and _Pig-Tail_ 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Drawing Nigh to the Last Scene in Jackson’s Career 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Almost a Famine 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX Home at Last 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL Redburn and Harry, Arm in Arm, in Harbor 36 readings five lines each Open chapter

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