What Shall It Profit?
What Shall It Profit? by Poul Anderson is available here as the complete text, split into 121 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
What Shall It Profit? by Poul Anderson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #59498.
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What Shall It Profit?
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Project Gutenberg eBook #59498, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 50 minutes of reading across 121 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in What Shall It Profit?
Words and structures a reader meets early in What Shall It Profit?, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Shall
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Shall It Profit?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Profit
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of What Shall It Profit?; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Build
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- Tower
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