The Children's Story of Westminster Abbey
The Children's Story of Westminster Abbey by G. E. (Georgina E.) Troutbeck is available here as the complete text, split into 368 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Children's Story of Westminster Abbey by G. E. (Georgina E.) Troutbeck. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #63628.
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The Children's Story of Westminster Abbey
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Coronations
- Chapter III King Edward the Confessor
- Chapter IV The Plantagenets of the Direct Line from Henry III to Richard II, 1216–1399
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI The House of Tudor
- Chapter VII The House of Stuart and the Commonwealth
- Chapter VIII The House of Hanover and the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter IX The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI The Monastic Buildings
- Chapter XII Some of the Abbots
- Chapter XIII Westminster School
This edition of The Children's Story of Westminster Abbey by G. E. (Georgina E.) Troutbeck carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #63628, divided into 13 chapters and 368 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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Yes. All 1839 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #63628 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #63628, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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