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Fair Margaret

Fair Margaret by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard is available here as the complete text, split into 908 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Fair Margaret by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #9780.

24 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of Fair Margaret by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #9780, divided into 24 chapters and 908 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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Fair Margaret is presented in 24 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Fair Margaret as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 908 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 24 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 #9780, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 378 minutes of reading across 908 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Fair Margaret

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Castell: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Fair Margaret; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Peter: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Fair Margaret; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Turned: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Fair Margaret; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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