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Winesburg, Ohio

Chapter XIII · Chapter 13

Chapter 13 of Winesburg, Ohio is here in full — 194 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Sherwood Anderson • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Seth stumbled forward through the half-darkness, feeling himself an outcast in his own town.

He began to pity himself, but a sense of the absurdity of his thoughts made him smile.

In the end he decided that he was simply old beyond his years and not at all a subject for self-pity.

“I’m made to go to work.

I may be able to make a place for myself by steady working, and I might as well be at it,” he decided.

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Chapter XIII Reading 1/38

Winesburg, Ohio

Chapter XIII · Chapter 13

Chapter 13 of Winesburg, Ohio is here in full — 194 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/38 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Seth stumbled forward through the half-darkness, feeling himself an outcast in his own town.

Line 2

He began to pity himself, but a sense of the absurdity of his thoughts made him smile.

Line 3

In the end he decided that he was simply old beyond his years and not at all a subject for self-pity.

Line 4

“I’m made to go to work.

Line 5

I may be able to make a place for myself by steady working, and I might as well be at it,” he decided.

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a

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able

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absurdity

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all

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an

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and

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as

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at

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be

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began

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beyond

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but

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by

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decided

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end

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feeling

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for

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forward

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go

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half-darkness

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He

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him

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himself

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his

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I

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I'm

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in

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it

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made

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make

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may

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might

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myself

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not

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of

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old

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outcast

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own

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pity

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place

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self-pity

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sense

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Seth

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simply

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smile

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steady

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stumbled

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subject

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that

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the

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thoughts

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through

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to

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town

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was

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well

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work

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working

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years

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Chapter 13 of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson holds 194 sentences, grouped into 39 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.

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