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Good Old Anna

Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes is available here as the complete text, split into 1056 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #22144.

34 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 34 chapters

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This edition of Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #22144, divided into 34 chapters and 1056 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 Good Old Anna as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1056 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 34 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 #22144, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Good Old Anna take to read?

About 439 minutes of reading across 1056 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Otway: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Good Old Anna; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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