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The Recreations of a Country Parson

The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 983 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5407.

12 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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The Recreations of a Country Parson is presented in 12 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting The Recreations of a Country Parson as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 983 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 12 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #5407, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 409 minutes of reading across 983 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Recreations of a Country Parson

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Concerning
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Disappointment
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Success
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Russet
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