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Rule of the Monk

Rule of the Monk by Giuseppe Garibaldi is available here as the complete text, split into 650 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Rule of the Monk by Giuseppe Garibaldi. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #38486.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 40 chapters

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This edition of Rule of the Monk by Giuseppe Garibaldi carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #38486, divided into 40 chapters and 650 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.

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Rule of the Monk is presented in 40 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Rule of the Monk as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 650 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 sections are gathered into 40 chapters.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #38486, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 270 minutes of reading across 650 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Nineteenth: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Rule of the Monk; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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