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The Pilot and His Wife

The Pilot and His Wife by Jonas Lie is available here as the complete text, split into 498 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Pilot and His Wife by Jonas Lie. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #15588.

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This edition of The Pilot and His Wife by Jonas Lie carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #15588, divided into 32 chapters and 498 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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Stern: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Pilot and His Wife; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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