Roast Beef, Medium
Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber is available here as the complete text, split into 717 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney by Edna Ferber. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6016.
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Roast Beef, Medium
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This edition of Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #6016, divided into 9 chapters and 717 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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The complete text of Roast Beef, Medium is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #6016 and divided into 717 sections.
This page carries the whole of Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #6016, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 3585 sentences across 9 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
How is Roast Beef, Medium divided for reading?
Roast Beef, Medium is presented in 9 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Roast Beef, Medium as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 717 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 9 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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Every sentence of Roast Beef, Medium can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
Questions about reading Roast Beef, Medium
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Is this the complete text of Roast Beef, Medium?
Yes. All 3585 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #6016 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Roast Beef, Medium is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #6016, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Roast Beef, Medium take to read?
About 298 minutes of reading across 717 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Roast Beef, Medium section by section
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Vocabulary met early in Roast Beef, Medium
Words and structures a reader meets early in Roast Beef, Medium, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Author
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Roast Beef, Medium; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- O'hara
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Roast Beef, Medium; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Buttered
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- Twenty-seven
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