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My New Curate

My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan is available here as the complete text, split into 1255 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #20295.

31 chaptersComplete chronicle

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US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 31 chapters

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This edition of My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #20295, divided into 31 chapters and 1255 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 My New Curate as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1255 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #20295, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 522 minutes of reading across 1255 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Fault: A word that appears in the opening chapter of My New Curate; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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