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Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented

Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented by Emerson Hough is available here as the complete text, split into 1197 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel by Emerson Hough. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #15159.

21 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 21 chapters

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Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented

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This edition of Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented by Emerson Hough carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #15159, divided into 21 chapters and 1197 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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How is Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented divided for reading?

Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented is presented in 21 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1197 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 21 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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Every sentence of Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented 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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Yes. All 5982 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #15159 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #15159, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented take to read?

About 498 minutes of reading across 1197 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented

Words and structures a reader meets early in Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Being
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Story
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Curly
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Oysters
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