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Poor Miss Finch

Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 2274 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3632.

28 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 28 chapters

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Poor Miss Finch

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This edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #3632, divided into 28 chapters and 2274 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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Poor Miss Finch is presented in 28 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Poor Miss Finch as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 2274 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 28 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 #3632, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Poor Miss Finch take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 2274 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Poor Miss Finch

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Deanery: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Poor Miss Finch; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Bristol: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Poor Miss Finch; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Honor: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Poor Miss Finch; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Accepting: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Poor Miss Finch; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.

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