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Donald and Dorothy

Donald and Dorothy by Mary Mapes Dodge is available here as the complete text, split into 944 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Donald and Dorothy by Mary Mapes Dodge. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #28856.

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 Donald and Dorothy by Mary Mapes Dodge carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #28856, divided into 34 chapters and 944 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 Donald and Dorothy as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 944 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 34 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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About 393 minutes of reading across 944 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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