Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Bayard Taylor is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 842 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Bayard Taylor. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #292.
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Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
- Chapter XV Chapter 15
- Chapter XVI Chapter 16
- Chapter XVII Chapter 17
- Chapter XVIII Chapter 18
- Chapter XIX Chapter 19
- Chapter XX Chapter 20
- Chapter XXI Chapter 21
- Chapter XXII Chapter 22
- Chapter XXIII Chapter 23
- Chapter XXIV Chapter 24
- Chapter XXV Chapter 25
- Chapter XXVI Chapter 26
This edition of Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Bayard Taylor carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #292, divided into 26 chapters and 842 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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Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home is presented in 26 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
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Is this the complete text of Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home?
Yes. All 4210 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #292 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #292, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home take to read?
About 350 minutes of reading across 842 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
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- Bayard
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- Taylor
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- Relate
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- Story
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