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Comrades of the Saddle

Comrades of the Saddle by Frank V. Webster is available here as the complete text, split into 502 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Comrades of the Saddle by Frank V. Webster. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #11890.

24 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 24 chapters

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This edition of Comrades of the Saddle by Frank V. Webster carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #11890, divided into 24 chapters and 502 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 Comrades of the Saddle as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 502 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 24 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 Comrades of the Saddle?

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Project Gutenberg eBook #11890, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 209 minutes of reading across 502 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Exhausted: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Comrades of the Saddle; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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