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The Elusive Pimpernel

The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy is available here as the complete text, split into 771 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #2785.

35 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 35 chapters

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The Elusive Pimpernel

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This edition of The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #2785, divided into 35 chapters and 771 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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The complete text of The Elusive Pimpernel is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #2785 and divided into 771 sections.

This page carries the whole of The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #2785, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 3851 sentences across 35 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 Elusive Pimpernel is presented in 35 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting The Elusive Pimpernel as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 771 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 35 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 Elusive Pimpernel 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 Elusive Pimpernel?

Yes. All 3851 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #2785 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #2785, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Elusive Pimpernel take to read?

About 320 minutes of reading across 771 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Elusive Pimpernel

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Reaction: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Elusive Pimpernel; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Surging: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Elusive Pimpernel; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Torrent: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Elusive Pimpernel; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Sowing: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Elusive Pimpernel; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.

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