Your Affectionate Godmother
Your Affectionate Godmother by Elinor Glyn is available here as the complete text, split into 159 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Your Affectionate Godmother by Elinor Glyn. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #49715.
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Your Affectionate Godmother
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This edition of Your Affectionate Godmother by Elinor Glyn carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #49715, divided into 2 chapters and 159 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 Your Affectionate Godmother is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #49715 and divided into 159 sections.
This page carries the whole of Your Affectionate Godmother by Elinor Glyn, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #49715, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 794 sentences across 2 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 Your Affectionate Godmother divided for reading?
Your Affectionate Godmother is presented in 2 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Your Affectionate Godmother as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 159 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 2 chapters.
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Yes. Every sentence and every individual word of Your Affectionate Godmother can be played aloud, and each word shows its dictionary entry.
Every sentence of Your Affectionate Godmother 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 Your Affectionate Godmother
Common questions about reading Your Affectionate Godmother by Elinor Glyn on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of Your Affectionate Godmother?
Yes. All 794 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #49715 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Your Affectionate Godmother is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #49715, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Your Affectionate Godmother take to read?
About 66 minutes of reading across 159 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Your Affectionate Godmother section by section
How to work through Your Affectionate Godmother section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Vocabulary met early in Your Affectionate Godmother
Words and structures a reader meets early in Your Affectionate Godmother, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Affectionate
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Your Affectionate Godmother; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Godmother
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Your Affectionate Godmother; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Point
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Your Affectionate Godmother; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Guinevere
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Your Affectionate Godmother; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.