English · Beginner
Read Pollyanna in Englishwith every sentence explained
Eleanor H. Porter · 1913
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About the book
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter was first published in 1913. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked beginner and filed under children. It runs to about 55,300 words.
One little girl. One simple game. A whole town that is about to change.
Eleven-year-old Pollyanna Whittier has lost both her parents, and now she must live with her rich, stern Aunt Polly in the town of Beldingsville, Vermont. Aunt Polly takes her in out of duty, not love, and gives her a bare little room in the attic.
But Pollyanna has a secret weapon: the "glad game" her father taught her. Whatever happens, she looks for something to be glad about. Soon she is playing it with everyone she meets, from the grumpy invalid Mrs. Snow to the mysterious, lonely John Pendleton on the hill. One by one, the people of Beldingsville begin to soften. But can the glad game work on Aunt Polly, and can it survive real hardship?
This 1913 bestseller was so loved that "Pollyanna" became an English word, and it inspired a famous Disney film.
- Author
- Eleanor H. Porter
- First published
- 1913
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children
- Length
- About 55,300 words
How it opens
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But to-day she was hurrying—actually hurrying.
Nancy, washing dishes at the sink, looked up in surprise. Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
Reading Pollyanna in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
