Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin is available here as the complete text, split into 325 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #18531.
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Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young
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This edition of Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #18531, divided into 4 chapters and 325 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 Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #18531 and divided into 325 sections.
This page carries the whole of Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #18531, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 1623 sentences across 4 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 Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young divided for reading?
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young is presented in 4 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 325 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 4 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 Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young 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 Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young
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Is this the complete text of Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young?
Yes. All 1623 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #18531 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #18531, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young take to read?
About 135 minutes of reading across 325 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young
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- Wiggin
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- Birds'
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- Christmas
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- Carol
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