The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine
The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine by Elizabeth Gerberding is available here as the complete text, split into 473 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine
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This edition of The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine by Elizabeth Gerberding carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #66628, divided into 15 chapters and 473 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 Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #66628 and divided into 473 sections.
This page carries the whole of The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine by Elizabeth Gerberding, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #66628, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 2362 sentences across 15 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 Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine divided for reading?
The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine is presented in 15 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 473 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 15 chapters.
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Every sentence of The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine 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 Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine
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Is this the complete text of The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine?
Yes. All 2362 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #66628 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #66628, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine take to read?
About 196 minutes of reading across 473 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Discovery
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Golden Chimney: A Boy's Mine; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Ralston
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- Cousin
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- Sitting
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