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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 2924 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #967.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 40 chapters

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This edition of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #967, divided into 40 chapters and 2924 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 Nicholas Nickleby as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 2924 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 40 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 #967, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Nicholas Nickleby take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 2924 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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