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Madame Midas

Madame Midas by Fergus Hume is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 871 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Madame Midas by Fergus Hume. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4946.

35 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 35 chapters

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This edition of Madame Midas by Fergus Hume carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #4946, divided into 35 chapters and 871 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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This page carries the whole of Madame Midas by Fergus Hume, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #4946, a public-domain edition, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 4353 sentences across 35 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 Madame Midas divided for reading?

Madame Midas is presented in 35 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Madame Midas as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 871 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 35 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 Madame Midas 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 Madame Midas?

Yes. All 4353 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #4946 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #4946, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Madame Midas take to read?

About 362 minutes of reading across 871 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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