Achilles
Achilles by Karl Friedrich Becker is available here as the complete text, split into 397 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Achilles by Karl Friedrich Becker. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #62453.
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Achilles
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III Meeting of the Armies—Menelaus and Paris—Agamemnon Leads the Greeks into Battle
- Chapter IV Continuation of the Battle—The Gods Take Part
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI Hector and Ajax in Single Combat—A Truce—Another Battle at the Ships
- Chapter VII Agamemnon Advises Flight—Council of the Princes—A Deputation is Sent to Achilles
- Chapter VIII Agamemnon in Battle—Many of the Greeks are Wounded
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI Patroclus Hastens into Battle and Scatters the Trojans—Hector and Patroclus
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII Achilles and Agamemnon Reconciled—Achilles Goes into Battle
- Chapter XIV Achilles in Battle—The Fight on the River
- Chapter XV Hector and Achilles—Hector’s Death
- Chapter XVI Priam and Achilles—Hector’s Burial in Troy
This edition of Achilles by Karl Friedrich Becker carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #62453, divided into 16 chapters and 397 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.
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Achilles is presented in 16 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Achilles as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 397 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 16 chapters.
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Is this the complete text of Achilles?
Yes. All 1983 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #62453 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #62453, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 165 minutes of reading across 397 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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