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With Hoops of Steel

With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly is available here as the complete text, split into 882 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #28585.

27 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 27 chapters

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This edition of With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #28585, divided into 27 chapters and 882 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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Rather than presenting With Hoops of Steel as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 882 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 27 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.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #28585, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 367 minutes of reading across 882 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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