You Can't Buy Eternity!
You Can't Buy Eternity! by Dwight V. Swain is available here as the complete text, split into 403 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
You Can't Buy Eternity! by Dwight V. Swain. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #65395.
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You Can't Buy Eternity!
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This edition of You Can't Buy Eternity! by Dwight V. Swain carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #65395, divided into 8 chapters and 403 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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You Can't Buy Eternity! is presented in 8 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting You Can't Buy Eternity! as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 403 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 8 chapters.
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Yes. All 2015 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #65395 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #65395, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does You Can't Buy Eternity! take to read?
About 167 minutes of reading across 403 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in You Can't Buy Eternity!
Words and structures a reader meets early in You Can't Buy Eternity!, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Wherever
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of You Can't Buy Eternity!; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Turned
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of You Can't Buy Eternity!; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Hunted
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of You Can't Buy Eternity!; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Surprising
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