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Ester Ried

Ester Ried by Pansy is available here as the complete text, split into 709 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Ester Ried by Pansy. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #13234.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

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Academic course · 27 chapters

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This edition of Ester Ried by Pansy carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #13234, divided into 27 chapters and 709 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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Sadie: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Ester Ried; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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