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What Answer?

What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson is available here as the complete text, split into 585 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #15402.

21 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 21 chapters

Course Syllabus

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What Answer?

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0 of 575 original contextual illustrations are live; remaining readings use the book cover while their artwork is reviewed.

This edition of What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #15402, divided into 21 chapters and 585 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 What Answer? is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #15402 and divided into 585 sections.

This page carries the whole of What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #15402, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 2923 sentences across 21 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 What Answer? divided for reading?

What Answer? is presented in 21 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting What Answer? as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 585 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 21 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.

Can I hear What Answer? read aloud?

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Every sentence of What Answer? 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.

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Is this the complete text of What Answer??

Yes. All 2923 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #15402 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of What Answer? is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #15402, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does What Answer? take to read?

About 243 minutes of reading across 585 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

How to read What Answer? section by section

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  1. Open a chapter

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  2. Read one section

    Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.

  3. Listen and tap

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Vocabulary met early in What Answer?

Words and structures a reader meets early in What Answer?, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Thou--drugging
A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Answer?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Patience
A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Answer?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Laces
A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Answer?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Cleaned
A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Answer?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.