Chapter 17 of The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor. He was nowhere at hand. The house was empty. But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight: “I love you.
Chapter 17 of The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
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From this reading He was nowhere at hand.
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From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
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From this reading The house was empty.
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From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
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From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
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From this reading He was nowhere at hand.
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From this reading He was nowhere at hand.
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From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
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From this reading The house was empty.
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From this reading “I love you.
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From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
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From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I love you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He was nowhere at hand.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
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From this reading Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor.
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From this reading “I love you.
Chapter 17 of The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin holds 201 sentences, grouped into 41 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 17 holds 201 sentences of The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 201 sentences, grouped into 41 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 41 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 41 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 17 can be played aloud in United States English.
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