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Felix Holt, the Radical

Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot is available here as the complete text, split into 1555 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40882.

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This edition of Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #40882, divided into 40 chapters and 1555 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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About 600 minutes of reading across 1555 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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