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Over the Teacups

Over the Teacups by Oliver Wendell Holmes is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 809 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Over the Teacups by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #2689.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

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This edition of Over the Teacups by Oliver Wendell Holmes carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #2689, divided into 27 chapters and 809 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 Over the Teacups as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 809 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 27 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 336 minutes of reading across 809 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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