Seven Legs Across the Seas
Seven Legs Across the Seas by Samuel Murray is available here as the complete text, split into 1311 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands by Samuel Murray. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #41508.
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Seven Legs Across the Seas
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This edition of Seven Legs Across the Seas by Samuel Murray carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #41508, divided into 21 chapters and 1311 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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The complete text of Seven Legs Across the Seas is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #41508 and divided into 1311 sections.
This page carries the whole of Seven Legs Across the Seas by Samuel Murray, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #41508, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 6552 sentences across 21 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 Seven Legs Across the Seas divided for reading?
Seven Legs Across the Seas is presented in 21 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Seven Legs Across the Seas as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1311 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 21 chapters.
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Every sentence of Seven Legs Across the Seas 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.
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Is this the complete text of Seven Legs Across the Seas?
Yes. All 6552 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #41508 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Seven Legs Across the Seas is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #41508, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Seven Legs Across the Seas take to read?
About 546 minutes of reading across 1311 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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