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Bound to Rise

Bound to Rise by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 813 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Bound to Rise by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5977.

34 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 34 chapters

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This edition of Bound to Rise by Horatio, Jr. Alger carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #5977, divided into 34 chapters and 813 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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