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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Chapter II · Chapter 2

Chapter 2 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Stephen Crane • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter.

A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows.

Long streamers of garments fluttered from fire-escapes.

In all unhandy places there were buckets, brooms, rags and bottles.

In the street infants played or fought with other infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles.

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Chapter II · Chapter 2

Chapter 2 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/25 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter.

Line 2

A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows.

Line 3

Long streamers of garments fluttered from fire-escapes.

Line 4

In all unhandy places there were buckets, brooms, rags and bottles.

Line 5

In the street infants played or fought with other infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles.

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a

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against

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all

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an

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and

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autumn

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babies

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bottles

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brooms

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buckets

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building

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careening

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cobbles

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dark

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doorways

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dozen

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dust

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early

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entered

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Eventually

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fire-escapes

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fluttered

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fought

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from

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garments

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gave

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gruesome

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gutter

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hundred

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In

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infants

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into

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it

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loads

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Long

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of

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or

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other

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places

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played

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rags

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raised

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region

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sat

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streamers

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From this reading Long streamers of garments fluttered from fire-escapes.

street

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From this reading Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter.

stupidly

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From this reading In the street infants played or fought with other infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles.

swirled

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From this reading A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows.

the

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From this reading Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter.

there

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they

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to

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unhandy

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up

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vehicles

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way

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From this reading In the street infants played or fought with other infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles.

were

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From this reading In all unhandy places there were buckets, brooms, rags and bottles.

where

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From this reading Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter.

wind

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From this reading A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows.

windows

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with

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yellow

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From this reading A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows.

Chapter 2 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane holds 129 sentences, grouped into 26 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.

What does chapter 2 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets contain?

Chapter 2 holds 129 sentences of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 2 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 129 sentences, grouped into 26 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.

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Little: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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