Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls
Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls by Amy Walton is available here as the complete text, split into 416 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls by Amy Walton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #21229.
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Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls
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This edition of Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls by Amy Walton carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #21229, divided into 5 chapters and 416 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 Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #21229 and divided into 416 sections.
This page carries the whole of Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls by Amy Walton, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #21229, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 2077 sentences across 5 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 Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls divided for reading?
Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls is presented in 5 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 416 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 5 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 Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls 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.
Questions about reading Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls
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Is this the complete text of Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls?
Yes. All 2077 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #21229 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #21229, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls take to read?
About 173 minutes of reading across 416 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls section by section
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Vocabulary met early in Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls
Words and structures a reader meets early in Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Thistle
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Story
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- Girls
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- Walton
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