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The Beetle: A Mystery

The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh is available here as the complete text, split into 1393 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5164.

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Academic course · 39 chapters

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The Beetle: A Mystery

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  1. Chapter I Inside 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II The Man in the Bed 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 59 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV A Singular Felony 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII A Midnight Episode 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX A Morning Visitor 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X The Picture 101 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Atherton’s Magic Vapour 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Magic?--or Miracle? 76 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV A Heavy Father 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI The Terror in the Night 60 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII The Haunted Man 70 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX A Woman’s View 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI A Father’s No 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Strange Story of the Man in the Street 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The House on the Road from the Workhouse 59 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV The Singular Behaviour of Mr Holt 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV The Terror by Day 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI In Pursuit 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII What Came of Looking Through a Lattice 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII After Twenty Years 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX A Bringer of Tidings 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX What Was Hidden Under the Floor 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI The Rest of the Find 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Miss Louisa Coleman 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII What Miss Coleman Saw Through the Window 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Constable,--His Clue,--and the Cab 56 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV The Murder at Mrs ’Enderson’s 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII All That Mrs ’Enderson Knew 55 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII The Contents of the Third-Class Carriage 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The Conclusion of the Matter 14 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #5164, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 580 minutes of reading across 1393 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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