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The Old Man and the Sea
132 pages
About This Book
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally _salao_, wh...
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3h 22m
slow reader
180 WPM
2h 25m
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250 WPM
1h 44m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 36,300 wordsπ
5 days at 30 min/day
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