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Slow and Sure

Slow and Sure by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 985 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Slow and Sure: The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #25151.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

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This edition of Slow and Sure by Horatio, Jr. Alger carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #25151, divided into 27 chapters and 985 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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