The Camera Fiend
The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung is available here as the complete text, split into 762 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #30096.
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The Camera Fiend
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A Boy About Town
- Chapter III His People
- Chapter IV A Grim Samaritan
- Chapter V The Glass Eye
- Chapter VI An Awakening
- Chapter VII Blood-Guilty
- Chapter VIII Points of View
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI On Parole
- Chapter XII Hunting with the Hounds
- Chapter XIII Boy and Girl
- Chapter XIV Before the Storm
- Chapter XV A Likely Story
- Chapter XVI Malingering
- Chapter XVII On the Track of the Truth
- Chapter XVIII A Third Case
- Chapter XIX The Fourth Case
- Chapter XX What the Thames Gave Up
- Chapter XXI After the Fair
- Chapter XXII The Secret of the Camera
This edition of The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #30096, divided into 22 chapters and 762 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 Camera Fiend is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #30096 and divided into 762 sections.
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The Camera Fiend is presented in 22 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Camera Fiend as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 762 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 22 chapters.
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Is this the complete text of The Camera Fiend?
Yes. All 3809 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #30096 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Camera Fiend is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #30096, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Camera Fiend take to read?
About 317 minutes of reading across 762 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Camera Fiend
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- London
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- Fisher
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- Unwin
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- Adelphi
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