The Burglars' Club
The Burglars' Club by Henry Augustus Hering is available here as the complete text, split into 855 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40897.
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The Burglars' Club
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This edition of The Burglars' Club by Henry Augustus Hering carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #40897, divided into 10 chapters and 855 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 The Burglars' Club is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #40897 and divided into 855 sections.
This page carries the whole of The Burglars' Club by Henry Augustus Hering, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #40897, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 4272 sentences across 10 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 The Burglars' Club divided for reading?
The Burglars' Club is presented in 10 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Burglars' Club as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 855 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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Every sentence of The Burglars' Club 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.
Questions about reading The Burglars' Club
Common questions about reading The Burglars' Club by Henry Augustus Hering on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of The Burglars' Club?
Yes. All 4272 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #40897 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Burglars' Club is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #40897, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Burglars' Club take to read?
About 356 minutes of reading across 855 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read The Burglars' Club section by section
How to work through The Burglars' Club section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Vocabulary met early in The Burglars' Club
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Burglars' Club, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Twelve
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Burglars' Club; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Chronicles
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Burglars' Club; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Burglar
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Burglars' Club; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Explained
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Burglars' Club; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.