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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

by Wilkie Collins

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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is available in the Project Gutenberg source edition credited to Wilkie Collins. Catalog subjects include Venice (Italy) -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Hotels -- Fiction. This edition retains the source text, including any introductory material and notes.

First published
Unknown year
Language
English
Copyright status
Public domain

English level

B1–B2 · Steady progress

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is calibrated from 39,512 sampled words across 29 chapters: sentences average 13.6 words, 13.5% exceed 24 words and 7.4% of words are nine letters or longer.

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Mostly compact sentences averaging 13.6 words in the sampled text

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7.4% of sampled words contain nine or more letters; names and period vocabulary still vary by chapter

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Medium commitment

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Table of contents

29 chapters

  1. 01CHAPTER I8 min
  2. 02CHAPTER II11 min
  3. 03CHAPTER III11 min
  4. 04CHAPTER IV13 min
  5. 05CHAPTER V13 min
  6. 06CHAPTER VI11 min
  7. 07CHAPTER VII4 min
  8. 08CHAPTER VIII15 min
  9. 09CHAPTER IX4 min
  10. 10CHAPTER X8 min
  11. 11CHAPTER XI9 min
  12. 12CHAPTER XII13 min
  13. 13CHAPTER XIII10 min
  14. 14CHAPTER XIV6 min
  15. 15CHAPTER XV7 min
  16. 16CHAPTER XVI4 min
  17. 17CHAPTER XVII13 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XVIII6 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XIX13 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XX13 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XXI11 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XXII11 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XXIII11 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XXIV11 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XXV11 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XXVI19 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XXVII6 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVIII8 min
  29. 29POSTSCRIPT4 min
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