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Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins is available here as the complete text, split into 1235 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #7893.

28 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 28 chapters

Course Syllabus

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0 of 1226 original contextual illustrations are live; remaining readings use the book cover while their artwork is reviewed.

This edition of Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #7893, divided into 28 chapters and 1235 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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This page carries the whole of Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #7893, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 6172 sentences across 28 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.

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Hide and Seek is presented in 28 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Hide and Seek as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1235 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 28 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 Hide and Seek 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 Hide and Seek?

Yes. All 6172 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #7893 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #7893, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Hide and Seek take to read?

About 514 minutes of reading across 1235 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Hide and Seek

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Period: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Hide and Seek; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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