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Sister Carrie: A Novel

Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser is available here as the complete text, split into 2430 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #233.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Sister Carrie: A Novel

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  1. Chapter I The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Wee Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty a Week 104 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of to-Day 70 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself 66 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Convention’s Own Tinder-Box: The Eye That Is Green 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX The Counsel of Winter: Fortune’s Ambassador Calls 89 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador Plea 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye 69 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 71 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh 52 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind 95 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate 56 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star 63 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained 66 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea 75 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream 75 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate 67 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care 63 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance 66 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate 108 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds 64 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV The Strike 98 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell 56 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy 134 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX Stirring Troubled Waters 68 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind 75 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #233, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 2430 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Caroline
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