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Old Kensington

Old Kensington by Anne Thackeray Ritchie is available here as the complete text, split into 1747 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Old Kensington by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36235.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Rather than presenting Old Kensington as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1747 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 40 chapters.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #36235, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 1747 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Old Kensington

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London: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Old Kensington; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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