Keeping Up with William
Keeping Up with William by Irving Bacheller is available here as the complete text, split into 246 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Keeping Up with William In which the Honorable Socrates Potter Talks of the Relative Merits of Sense Common and Preferred by Irving Bacheller. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #50093.
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Keeping Up with William
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Which Teaches That One Should Never Hitch His Conscience To
- Chapter III Which Presents the Story of the Smothered Son
- Chapter IV Which Hands Out Some Some Common to the Superers in America
- Chapter V Which Drops a Few Rounds of Shrapnel on the Huns in America
- Chapter VI Which Is Mostly for the Boys of Our Army
This edition of Keeping Up with William by Irving Bacheller carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #50093, divided into 6 chapters and 246 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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This page carries the whole of Keeping Up with William by Irving Bacheller, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #50093, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 1229 sentences across 6 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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Keeping Up with William is presented in 6 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Keeping Up with William as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 246 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 sections are gathered into 6 chapters.
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Is this the complete text of Keeping Up with William?
Yes. All 1229 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #50093 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Keeping Up with William is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #50093, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Keeping Up with William take to read?
About 102 minutes of reading across 246 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Keeping Up with William
Words and structures a reader meets early in Keeping Up with William, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Honorable
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Keeping Up with William; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Socrates
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- Potter
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- Talks
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