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Oh, You Tex!

Oh, You Tex! by William MacLeod Raine is available here as the complete text, split into 1287 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Oh, You Tex! by William MacLeod Raine. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #22328.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Rather than presenting Oh, You Tex! as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1287 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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About 536 minutes of reading across 1287 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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