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Actions and reactions

Actions and reactions by Rudyard Kipling is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 987 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Actions and reactions by Rudyard Kipling. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #2381.

24 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Actions and reactions

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This edition of Actions and reactions by Rudyard Kipling carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #2381, divided into 24 chapters and 987 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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Rather than presenting Actions and reactions as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 987 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 24 chapters follow the divisions of the source edition, and each section carries a contextual illustration drawn from the passage it accompanies rather than a stock image.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #2381, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 410 minutes of reading across 987 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Friend: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Actions and reactions; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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