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Tom Slade's Double Dare

Tom Slade's Double Dare by Percy Keese Fitzhugh is available here as the complete text, split into 557 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Tom Slade's Double Dare by Percy Keese Fitzhugh. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #19590.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 36 chapters

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Tom Slade's Double Dare

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This edition of Tom Slade's Double Dare by Percy Keese Fitzhugh carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #19590, divided into 36 chapters and 557 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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Tom Slade's Double Dare is presented in 36 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Tom Slade's Double Dare as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 557 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 36 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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Yes. All 2785 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #19590 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #19590, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 232 minutes of reading across 557 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Remarkable: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Tom Slade's Double Dare; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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