Chapter 2 of The Heroes is here in full — 6 sentences across 2 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Heroes is here in full — 6 sentences across 2 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
II. HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III. HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III. HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV. HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V. WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
Chapter 2 of The Heroes is here in full — 6 sentences across 2 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV.
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV.
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From this reading HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
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From this reading HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V.
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From this reading WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS
Chapter 2 of The Heroes by Charles Kingsley holds 6 sentences, grouped into 2 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 2 holds 6 sentences of The Heroes, unabridged, divided into 2 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Heroes by Charles Kingsley exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 6 sentences, grouped into 2 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 2 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 2 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.
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About 152 minutes of reading across 366 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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