TY - BOOK AU - McGuffey,William Holmes TI - McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader AV - PE PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Readers N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuffey_Readers; Release date is 2005-02-02; Produced by Don Kostuch; Original publication data not identified N2 - "McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader" by William Holmes McGuffey is a graded textbook published in 1836–1837. Part of a revolutionary series that shaped American education, it was designed for advanced grammar school students and featured stories, poems, essays, and speeches from renowned writers. Using phonics and word repetition, the Reader taught vocabulary and formal public speaking while instilling moral values. Between 1836 and 1960, the series sold 120 million copies, influencing generations and bringing Shakespeare and classic literature to mass audiences across nineteenth-century America. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14880 ER -