Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuffey_Readers

Release date is 2005-06-29

Produced by Don Kostuch

"McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition" by William Holmes McGuffey is a graded textbook first published in 1836. Part of a revolutionary series that shaped American education, this primer taught young students to read using phonics and word repetition within real literature rather than dull memorization lists. Emphasizing spelling, vocabulary, and moral instruction, McGuffey's Readers sold approximately 120 million copies between 1836 and 1960, profoundly influencing generations of American students and becoming one of the nation's most widely distributed books. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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