McGuffey, William Holmes,  1800-1873 <br/><br/>
McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuffey_Readers  Release date is 2005-02-14 
<br/><br/>Produced by Don Kostuch  Produced by Don Kostuch 
<br/><br/> "McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader" by William Holmes McGuffey is a textbook published in the 1840s. Part of a groundbreaking series of graded primers, it featured stories, poems, essays, and speeches from renowned writers like Lord Byron and John Milton. The Readers shaped America's first mass-literate generation, emphasizing vocabulary, public speaking, and moral education. Selling over 120 million copies by 1960, they remain influential in homeschooling and private education today. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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