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The Desired Woman

The Desired Woman by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1585 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Desired Woman by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6056.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 40 chapters

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This edition of The Desired Woman by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #6056, divided into 40 chapters and 1585 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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This page carries the whole of The Desired Woman by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #6056, a public-domain edition, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 7922 sentences across 40 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.

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The Desired Woman is presented in 40 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting The Desired Woman as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1585 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 40 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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Every sentence of The Desired Woman 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.

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Is this the complete text of The Desired Woman?

Yes. All 7922 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #6056 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #6056, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Desired Woman take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 1585 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Desired Woman

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Cuyler: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Desired Woman; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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The Desired Woman

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