Miss Cayley's Adventures
Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen is available here as the complete text, split into 1243 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #30970.
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Miss Cayley's Adventures
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This edition of Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #30970, divided into 15 chapters and 1243 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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The complete text of Miss Cayley's Adventures is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #30970 and divided into 1243 sections.
This page carries the whole of Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #30970, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 6212 sentences across 15 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 Miss Cayley's Adventures divided for reading?
Miss Cayley's Adventures is presented in 15 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Miss Cayley's Adventures as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1243 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 15 chapters.
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Every sentence of Miss Cayley's Adventures 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.
Questions about reading Miss Cayley's Adventures
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Is this the complete text of Miss Cayley's Adventures?
Yes. All 6212 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #30970 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Miss Cayley's Adventures is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #30970, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Miss Cayley's Adventures take to read?
About 517 minutes of reading across 1243 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Miss Cayley's Adventures
Words and structures a reader meets early in Miss Cayley's Adventures, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Conan
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- Doyle
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- Grant
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- Allen
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