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Lister's Great Adventure

Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1107 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #10076.

31 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 31 chapters

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This edition of Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #10076, divided into 31 chapters and 1107 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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The complete text of Lister's Great Adventure is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #10076 and divided into 1107 sections.

This page carries the whole of Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #10076, a public-domain edition, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 5531 sentences across 31 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.

How is Lister's Great Adventure divided for reading?

Lister's Great Adventure is presented in 31 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Lister's Great Adventure as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1107 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 31 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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Every sentence of Lister's Great Adventure 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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Is this the complete text of Lister's Great Adventure?

Yes. All 5531 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #10076 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of Lister's Great Adventure is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #10076, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Lister's Great Adventure take to read?

About 460 minutes of reading across 1107 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Lister's Great Adventure

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Morning: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Lister's Great Adventure; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Cartwright: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Lister's Great Adventure; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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