The Magnetic Girl
The Magnetic Girl by Richard Marsh is available here as the complete text, split into 849 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Magnetic Girl by Richard Marsh. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #64957.
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The Magnetic Girl
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Women’s Voices
- Chapter III The Unfinished Sentence
- Chapter IV The Episode of the Baker’s Boy
- Chapter V The Further Episodes of the Shop-Walker and the Artist in Hair
- Chapter VI Miss Norah Feels Odd
- Chapter VII Miss Norah Receives Two Gentlemen
- Chapter VIII Men Are Deceivers Ever
- Chapter IX More Treachery
- Chapter X The Compromise
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII Miss Norah’s Soliloquy
- Chapter XIII Jane
- Chapter XIV A Quarter to Seven
- Chapter XV Trampling upon Five
- Chapter XVI The Dinner Which Failed
- Chapter XVII The Brown Man
- Chapter XVIII Before the Curtain
- Chapter XIX An Unrehearsed Effect
- Chapter XX The Brougham
- Chapter XXI The Singular Wooing
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII “Until?”
- Chapter XXIV The Finished Sentence
- Chapter XXV The Brown Man’s Apology
- Chapter XXVI On the Singular Effects of Sunlight
This edition of The Magnetic Girl by Richard Marsh carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #64957, divided into 26 chapters and 849 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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This page carries the whole of The Magnetic Girl by Richard Marsh, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #64957, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 4244 sentences across 26 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 Magnetic Girl divided for reading?
The Magnetic Girl is presented in 26 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Magnetic Girl as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 849 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 26 chapters.
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Every sentence of The Magnetic Girl 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 Magnetic Girl?
Yes. All 4244 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #64957 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Magnetic Girl is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #64957, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Magnetic Girl take to read?
About 353 minutes of reading across 849 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Marsh
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