Hildegarde's Neighbors
Hildegarde's Neighbors by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 501 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Hildegarde's Neighbors by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5259.
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Hildegarde's Neighbors
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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
This edition of Hildegarde's Neighbors by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #5259, divided into 15 chapters and 501 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #5259, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 208 minutes of reading across 501 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Friends
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- Indeed
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- Advent
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- Neighbours
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