Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 166 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4387.
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
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Rather than presenting Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 166 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 2 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 829 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #4387 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #4387, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 69 minutes of reading across 166 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Peculiar
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