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The Street of Seven Stars

The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1195 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1214.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 27 chapters

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This edition of The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1214, divided into 27 chapters and 1195 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 Street of Seven Stars is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #1214 and divided into 1195 sections.

This page carries the whole of The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #1214, a public-domain edition, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 5973 sentences across 27 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 Street of Seven Stars is presented in 27 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting The Street of Seven Stars as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1195 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 27 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 Street of Seven Stars 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 Street of Seven Stars?

Yes. All 5973 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #1214 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of The Street of Seven Stars is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #1214, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Street of Seven Stars take to read?

About 497 minutes of reading across 1195 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Street of Seven Stars

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Stucco: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Street of Seven Stars; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
House: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Street of Seven Stars; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Garden: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Street of Seven Stars; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Austrian: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Street of Seven Stars; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.

The Street of Seven Stars

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