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It Never Can Happen Again

It Never Can Happen Again by William De Morgan is available here as the complete text, split into 3873 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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It Never Can Happen Again by William De Morgan. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #46228.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 40 chapters

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It Never Can Happen Again

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  1. Chapter I 50 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 142 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 177 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 60 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 116 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 158 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 80 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 148 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 71 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 64 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 118 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 96 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 74 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 109 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 102 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 69 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 176 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 73 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 65 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 198 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 62 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 129 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 86 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 94 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 139 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 58 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 120 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 63 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 159 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 86 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 62 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 177 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL 150 readings five lines each Open chapter

This edition of It Never Can Happen Again by William De Morgan carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #46228, divided into 40 chapters and 3873 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.

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Every sentence of It Never Can Happen Again 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 19361 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #46228 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #46228, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does It Never Can Happen Again take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 3873 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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