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Forrest House

Forrest House by Mary Jane Holmes is available here as the complete text, split into 1120 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Forrest House by Mary Jane Holmes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #70473.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 40 chapters

Course Syllabus

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Forrest House

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  1. Chapter I 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III The Forrest House 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Beatrice Belknap 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Josephine 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Everard 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII The Result 72 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII After Two Years 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Commencement 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X The Reception 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI The House of Cards Begins to Fall 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII The House of Cards Goes Down 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII The Next Day 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV The Judge’s Will 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV The Heiress 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI The New Life at Rothsay 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Bee’s Family 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII In the Summer 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Josephine’s Confidence 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX Events of One Year at the Forrest House 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII How Rossie Bore the News 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Everard Faces It 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Everard and Rossie 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Matters Are Adjusted 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII “Waiting and Watching for Me.” 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX How the Tide Ebbed and Flowed in Rothsay 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX How the Game Was Played 62 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Alas, Poor Rossie! 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The New Heir 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII The New Reign at the Forrest House 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Letter from Austria 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV La Maison de Sante 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI The Escape 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Breaking the News at the Forrest House 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII Breaking the News to Everard 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The Arrest 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL Conclusion 21 readings five lines each Open chapter

This edition of Forrest House by Mary Jane Holmes carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #70473, divided into 40 chapters and 1120 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.

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How is Forrest House divided for reading?

Forrest House is presented in 40 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Forrest House as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1120 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 sections are gathered into 40 chapters.

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Every sentence of Forrest House can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.

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Is this the complete text of Forrest House?

Yes. All 5596 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #70473 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of Forrest House is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #70473, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Forrest House take to read?

About 466 minutes of reading across 1120 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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