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Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone

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Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune by Victor Appleton. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4532.

24 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Rather than presenting Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 660 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 24 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #4532, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 274 minutes of reading across 660 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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