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From Jest to Earnest

From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1324 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6102.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

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This edition of From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #6102, divided into 36 chapters and 1324 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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