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For Love of Country

For Love of Country by Cyrus Townsend Brady is available here as the complete text, split into 851 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #20791.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of For Love of Country by Cyrus Townsend Brady carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #20791, divided into 36 chapters and 851 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 For Love of Country as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 851 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 36 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 #20791, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 354 minutes of reading across 851 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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