Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll
Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 195 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #2842.
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Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll
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Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll is presented in 7 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 195 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 7 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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Is this the complete text of Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll?
Yes. All 971 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #2842 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #2842, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 80 minutes of reading across 195 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll
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- Memory
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- Child
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- Burnham
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- Bound
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