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Joe the Hotel Boy

Joe the Hotel Boy by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 776 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Joe the Hotel Boy by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #528.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of Joe the Hotel Boy by Horatio, Jr. Alger carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #528, divided into 30 chapters and 776 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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Rather than presenting Joe the Hotel Boy as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 776 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 30 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #528, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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