What Rough Beast?
What Rough Beast? by Jefferson Highe is available here as the complete text, split into 126 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
What Rough Beast? by Jefferson Highe. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #31975.
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What Rough Beast?
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This edition of What Rough Beast? by Jefferson Highe carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #31975, divided into 1 chapters and 126 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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The complete text of What Rough Beast? is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #31975 and divided into 126 sections.
This page carries the whole of What Rough Beast? by Jefferson Highe, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #31975, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 627 sentences across 1 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 Rough Beast? divided for reading?
What Rough Beast? is presented in 1 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting What Rough Beast? as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 126 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 1 chapters.
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Every sentence of What Rough Beast? 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 Rough Beast??
Yes. All 627 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #31975 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of What Rough Beast? is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #31975, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does What Rough Beast? take to read?
About 52 minutes of reading across 126 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in What Rough Beast?
Words and structures a reader meets early in What Rough Beast?, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Rough
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Rough Beast?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Beast
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Rough Beast?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Sidenote
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- Teacher
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