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The Mayor's Wife

The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green is available here as the complete text, split into 734 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4767.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 27 chapters

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The Mayor's Wife

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  1. Chapter I Questions 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II In the Gable Window 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Lights--Sounds 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV The Strange Neighbors Next Door 59 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI A Moving Shadow 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Scraps 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX A Glimmer of the Truth 71 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Bess 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Searchings 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII A Discovery 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII I Seek Help 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Hardly a Coincidence 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV In the Library 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI The Two Weird Sisters 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII The Morning News 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII The Cry from the Stairs 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Explanation 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The Cipher 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Wife’s Tale 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Sins of the Fathers 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV THE FINGER ON THE WALL. At this appeal the mayor rose and 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI A Child’s Playthings 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 13 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Is this the complete text of The Mayor's Wife?

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Project Gutenberg eBook #4767, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Mayor's Wife take to read?

About 305 minutes of reading across 734 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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