The Village of Hide and Seek
The Village of Hide and Seek by Bingham Thoburn Wilson is available here as the complete text, split into 197 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Village of Hide and Seek by Bingham Thoburn Wilson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55214.
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The Village of Hide and Seek
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This edition of The Village of Hide and Seek by Bingham Thoburn Wilson carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #55214, divided into 10 chapters and 197 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 Village of Hide and Seek is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #55214 and divided into 197 sections.
This page carries the whole of The Village of Hide and Seek by Bingham Thoburn Wilson, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #55214, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 983 sentences across 10 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 Village of Hide and Seek divided for reading?
The Village of Hide and Seek is presented in 10 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Village of Hide and Seek as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 197 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 10 chapters.
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Every sentence of The Village of Hide and Seek 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 Village of Hide and Seek?
Yes. All 983 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #55214 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Village of Hide and Seek is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #55214, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Village of Hide and Seek take to read?
About 81 minutes of reading across 197 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read The Village of Hide and Seek section by section
How to work through The Village of Hide and Seek section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Vocabulary met early in The Village of Hide and Seek
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Village of Hide and Seek, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Highness
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Village of Hide and Seek; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Vagabond
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Village of Hide and Seek; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Bright
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Village of Hide and Seek; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Sunny
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Village of Hide and Seek; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.