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Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas is available here as the complete text, split into 3046 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1259.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle

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This edition of Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1259, divided into 39 chapters and 3046 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.

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Rather than presenting Twenty Years After as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 3046 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 sections are gathered into 39 chapters.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #1259, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 3046 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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