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El Dorado

El Dorado by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1217 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1752.

38 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of El Dorado by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1752, divided into 38 chapters and 1217 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 El Dorado as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1217 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 38 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #1752, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 506 minutes of reading across 1217 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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People: A word that appears in the opening chapter of El Dorado; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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