Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls
Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards is available here as the complete text, split into 667 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #24826.
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Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
- Chapter XV Chapter 15
- Chapter XVI Chapter 16
- Chapter XVII Chapter 17
- Chapter XVIII Chapter 18
This edition of Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #24826, divided into 18 chapters and 667 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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Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls is presented in 18 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 667 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 18 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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Is this the complete text of Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls?
Yes. All 3331 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #24826 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #24826, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 277 minutes of reading across 667 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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