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David Balfour

David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson is available here as the complete text, split into 1028 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder by Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #14133.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #14133, divided into 30 chapters and 1028 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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About 428 minutes of reading across 1028 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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August: A word that appears in the opening chapter of David Balfour; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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