Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls
Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls by Alice Corkran is available here as the complete text, split into 970 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
This edition of Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls by Alice Corkran carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #39936, divided into 27 chapters and 970 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 Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 970 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 27 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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Is this the complete text of Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls?
Yes. All 4849 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #39936 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #39936, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls take to read?
About 404 minutes of reading across 970 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Meg's
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- Friend
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- Story
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- Girls
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