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Charlotte's Inheritance

Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon is available here as the complete text, split into 1544 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #9259.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 40 chapters

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Rather than presenting Charlotte's Inheritance as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1544 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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Is this the complete text of Charlotte's Inheritance?

Yes. All 7716 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #9259 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #9259, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Charlotte's Inheritance take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 1544 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Lenoble: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Charlotte's Inheritance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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