Within Prison Walls
Within Prison Walls by Thomas Mott Osborne is available here as the complete text, split into 796 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Thomas Mott Osborne. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #33255.
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Within Prison Walls
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This edition of Within Prison Walls by Thomas Mott Osborne carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #33255, divided into 15 chapters and 796 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 Within Prison Walls is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #33255 and divided into 796 sections.
This page carries the whole of Within Prison Walls by Thomas Mott Osborne, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #33255, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 3980 sentences across 15 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 Within Prison Walls divided for reading?
Within Prison Walls is presented in 15 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Within Prison Walls as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 796 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 15 chapters.
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Every sentence of Within Prison Walls 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.
Questions about reading Within Prison Walls
Common questions about reading Within Prison Walls by Thomas Mott Osborne on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of Within Prison Walls?
Yes. All 3980 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #33255 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Within Prison Walls is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #33255, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Within Prison Walls take to read?
About 331 minutes of reading across 796 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Within Prison Walls section by section
How to work through Within Prison Walls section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Vocabulary met early in Within Prison Walls
Words and structures a reader meets early in Within Prison Walls, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Years
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- Early
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- Boyhood
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- Taken
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