Essays Before a Sonata
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 232 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3673.
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This edition of Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #3673, divided into 2 chapters and 232 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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Is this the complete text of Essays Before a Sonata?
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Project Gutenberg eBook #3673, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 96 minutes of reading across 232 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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