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Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays is available in the Project Gutenberg source edition credited to Robert Louis Stevenson. Catalog subjects include Essays; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Monterey (Calif.) -- Description and travel. This edition retains the source text, including any introductory material and notes.

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Language
English
Copyright status
Public domain

English level

B2–C1 · Deep reading

Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays is calibrated from 39,985 sampled words across 38 chapters: sentences average 25.5 words, 43.1% exceed 24 words and 6.5% of words are nine letters or longer.

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Extended sentences averaging 25.5 words, with 17.8% reaching 40 words or more

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Table of contents

38 chapters

  1. 01TO PAUL BOURGET2 min
  2. 02LETTER TO THE AUTHOR2 min
  3. 03I ACROSS THE PLAINS35 min
  4. 04The Plains of Nebraska5 min
  5. 05The Desert of Wyoming8 min
  6. 06Fellow-Passengers7 min
  7. 07Despised Races6 min
  8. 08To the Golden Gates7 min
  9. 09II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL12 min
  10. 10Mexicans, Americans, and Indians15 min
  11. 11III FONTAINEBLEAU Village Communities of Painters8 min
  12. 12II5 min
  13. 13III5 min
  14. 14IV4 min
  15. 15V3 min
  16. 16VI2 min
  17. 17VII3 min
  18. 18IV EPILOGUE TO “AN INLAND VOYAGE” [95]21 min
  19. 19V RANDOM MEMORIES18 min
  20. 20VI RANDOM MEMORIES15 min
  21. 21VII THE LANTERN-BEARERS9 min
  22. 22II — Section 227 min
  23. 23III — Section 233 min
  24. 24IV — Section 242 min
  25. 25VIII A CHAPTER ON DREAMS22 min
  26. 26IX BEGGARS6 min
  27. 27II — Section 273 min
  28. 28III — Section 284 min
  29. 29IV — Section 293 min
  30. 30V — Section 302 min
  31. 31X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART15 min
  32. 32XI PULVIS ET UMBRA4 min
  33. 33II — Section 337 min
  34. 34XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON5 min
  35. 35II — Section 353 min
  36. 36III — Section 363 min
  37. 37IV — Section 372 min
  38. 38FOOTNOTES2 min
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