Chapter 10 of Roderick Hudson is here in full — 1102 sentences across 221 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Roderick Hudson is here in full — 1102 sentences across 221 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel. Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room. In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother. “And it ‘s magnificent!” he declared. “It ‘s one of the best things I have done.”
Chapter 10 of Roderick Hudson is here in full — 1102 sentences across 221 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading “And it ‘s magnificent!” he declared.
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From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
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From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
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From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
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From this reading “It ‘s one of the best things I have done.”
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From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
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From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
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From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And it ‘s magnificent!” he declared.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It ‘s one of the best things I have done.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It ‘s one of the best things I have done.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It ‘s one of the best things I have done.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And it ‘s magnificent!” he declared.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And it ‘s magnificent!” he declared.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And it ‘s magnificent!” he declared.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Late in the evening of the second one Roderick came into his room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In a few moments he announced that he had finished the bust of his mother.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It ‘s one of the best things I have done.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
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From this reading There befell at last a couple of days during which Rowland was unable to go to the hotel.
Chapter 10 of Roderick Hudson by Henry James holds 1102 sentences, grouped into 221 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 10 holds 1102 sentences of Roderick Hudson, unabridged, divided into 221 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Roderick Hudson by Henry James exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 1102 sentences, grouped into 221 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 221 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 221 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 10 can be played aloud in United States English.
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