Woven with the Ship
Woven with the Ship by Cyrus Townsend Brady is available here as the complete text, split into 1088 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865 Together with certain other veracious tales of various sorts by Cyrus Townsend Brady. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39097.
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Woven with the Ship
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This edition of Woven with the Ship by Cyrus Townsend Brady carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #39097, divided into 23 chapters and 1088 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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Woven with the Ship is presented in 23 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Woven with the Ship as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 1088 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 23 chapters.
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Is this the complete text of Woven with the Ship?
Yes. All 5436 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #39097 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Woven with the Ship is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #39097, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Woven with the Ship take to read?
About 453 minutes of reading across 1088 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Woven with the Ship
Words and structures a reader meets early in Woven with the Ship, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Buckram
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- Eight
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- Illustrations
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- Plaisted
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