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A Thorny Path — Complete

A Thorny Path — Complete by Georg Ebers is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1839 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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A Thorny Path — Complete by Georg Ebers. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5542.

35 chaptersComplete chronicle

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Academic course · 35 chapters

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This edition of A Thorny Path — Complete by Georg Ebers carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #5542, divided into 35 chapters and 1839 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 1839 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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