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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow is available here as the complete text, split into 1708 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #18224.

21 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 21 chapters

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This edition of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #18224, divided into 21 chapters and 1708 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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How is Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town divided for reading?

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is presented in 21 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1708 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 21 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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Yes. All 8538 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #18224 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #18224, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 1708 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Words and structures a reader meets early in Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Someone
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Comes
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Leaves
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Third
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