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Ten Years Later

Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 3211 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1258.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle

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This edition of Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1258, divided into 36 chapters and 3211 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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Rather than presenting Ten Years Later as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 3211 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 36 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #1258, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 3211 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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