The Rival Heirs
The Rival Heirs by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake is available here as the complete text, split into 669 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Rival Heirs by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #13375.
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The Rival Heirs
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Anglo-Saxon Hall
- Chapter III The Black and Dark Night
- Chapter IV The Wedding of the Hawk and the Dove
- Chapter V The Norman Pages
- Chapter VI A Fray in the Greenwood
- Chapter VII A Revelation
- Chapter VIII Frustrated
- Chapter IX Vae Victis
- Chapter X A Hunt in the Woods
- Chapter XI Even the Tiger Loves Its Cub
- Chapter XII Alive--or Dead?
- Chapter XIII The Enigma Solved
- Chapter XIV "COALS OF FIRE {xii}."
- Chapter XV The Guide
- Chapter XVI Restored to Life
- Chapter XVII Retribution
- Chapter XVIII The English Heir Takes Possession
- Chapter XIX At the Abbey of Abingdon
- Chapter XX An Interview with the Conqueror
- Chapter XXI The Messenger from the Camp of Refuge
- Chapter XXII Two Documents
- Chapter XXIII The Chapter House of Abingdon
- Chapter XXIV "Guilty or Not Guilty."
- Chapter XXV The Castle of Oxford
- Chapter XXVI In the Forest of Lebanon
- Chapter XXVII "Quantum Mutatus Ab Illo Hectore."
- Chapter XXVIII The Friends Who Once Were Foes
- Chapter XXIX Aescendune Once More
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- Preface
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- Little
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