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Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories by William Carleton is available here as the complete text, split into 1136 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #16019.

14 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 14 chapters

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Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories is presented in 14 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1136 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 14 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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Yes. All 5680 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #16019 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #16019, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 473 minutes of reading across 1136 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories

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Phelim
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O'toole
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Honor
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Being
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