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At Home and Abroad

At Home and Abroad by Margaret Fuller is available here as the complete text, split into 1242 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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At Home and Abroad by Margaret Fuller. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #16327.

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This edition of At Home and Abroad by Margaret Fuller carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #16327, divided into 40 chapters and 1242 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 At Home and Abroad as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1242 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 40 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 #16327, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 517 minutes of reading across 1242 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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