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Classic usage
Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 7,024 sentences
Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English · Fiction · Short stories
Words worth knowing: reasoner · adjure · connivance · trumpery · interpolate · conclave · reverberation · monograph
Text file originally posted in January, 2000 with an html conversion added by Walter Deboeuf in 2003.
The present text and html files were produced by Suzanne Shell, M, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY CLASSIC MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES EDITED BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE MODERN ENGLISH Rudyard Kipling A. Conan Doyle Egerton Castle Stanley J. Weyman Wilkie Collins Robert Louis Stevenson NEW YORK THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. 1909 Rudyard Kipling My Own True Ghost Story As I came through the Desert thus it was-- As I came through the Desert.
The City of Dreadful Night. Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant.
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