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Lover or Friend

Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey is available here as the complete text, split into 2169 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #28925.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 39 chapters

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This edition of Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #28925, divided into 39 chapters and 2169 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 Lover or Friend as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 2169 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 39 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 #28925, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 2169 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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