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Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree

Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree by George Manville Fenn is available here as the complete text, split into 821 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree by George Manville Fenn. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40674.

10 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree is presented in 10 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 821 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 10 chapters.

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Is this the complete text of Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree?

Yes. All 4105 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #40674 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #40674, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 342 minutes of reading across 821 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree

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George
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Manville
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Volume
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Chapter
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