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Town and Country

Town and Country by John S. (John Stowell) Adams is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 909 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Town and Country by John S. (John Stowell) Adams. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4669.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of Town and Country by John S. (John Stowell) Adams carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #4669, divided into 30 chapters and 909 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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About 378 minutes of reading across 909 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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