目录 LESSON 1 THE GOOD READER LESSON 2 THE BLUEBELL LESSON 3 THE GENTLE HAND LESSON 4 THE GRANDFATHER LESSON 5 A BOY ON A FARM LESSON 6 THE SINGING LESSON LESSON 7 DO NOT MEDDLE LESSON 8 WORK LESSON 9 THE MANIAC LESSON 10 ROBIN REDBREAST LESSON 11 THE FISH I DIDN’T CATCH LESSON 12 IT SNOWS LESSON 13 RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH REWARDED LESSON 14 THE SANDS O’ DEE LESSON 15 SELECT PARAGRAPHS LESSON 16 THE CORN SONG LESSON 17 THE VENOMOUS WORM LESSON 18 THE FESTAL BOARD LESSON 19 HOW TO TELL BAD NEWS LESSON 20 THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM LESSON 21 “I PITY THEM” LESSON 22 AN ELEGY ON MADAM BLAIZE LESSON 23 KING CHARLES II AND WILLIAM PENN LESSON 24 WHAT I LIVE FOR LESSON 25 THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN LESSON 26 ABOU BEN ADHEM LESSON 27 LUCY FORESTER LESSON 28 THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS LESSON 29 THE TOWN PUMP LESSON 30 GOOD NIGHT LESSON 31 AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL LESSON 32 MY MOTHER’S HANDS LESSON 33 THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM LESSON 34 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS LESSON 35 THE THUNDERSTORM LESSON 36 APRIL DAY LESSON 37 THE TEA ROSE LESSON 38 THE CATARACT OF LODORE LESSON 39 THE BOBOLINK LESSON 40 ROBERT OF LINCOLN LESSON 41 REBELLION IN MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON LESSON 42 FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY LESSON 43 THE GENEROUS RUSSIAN PEASANT LESSON 44 FORTY YEARS AGO LESSON 45 MRS. CAUDLE’S LECTURE LESSON 46 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH LESSON 47 THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW LESSON 48 THE SNOWSTORM LESSON 49 BEHIND TIME LESSON 50 THE OLD SAMPLER LESSON 51 THE GOODNESS OF GOD LESSON 52 MY MOTHER LESSON 53 THE HOUR OF PRAYER LESSON 54 THE WILL LESSON 55 THE NOSE AND THE EYES LESSON 56 AN ICEBERG LESSON 57 ABOUT QUAIL LESSON 58 THE BLUE AND THE GRAY LESSON 59 THE MACHINIST’S RETURN LESSON 60 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY LESSON 61 THE ENGLISH SKYLARK LESSON 62 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE LESSON 63 THE RAINBOW LESSON 64 SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS LESSON 65 THE RISING LESSON 66 CONTROL YOUR TEMPER LESSON 67 WILLIAM TELL LESSON 68 WILLIAM TELL (CONCLUDED) LESSON 69 THE CRAZY ENGINEER LESSON 70 THE HERITAGE LESSON 71 NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR LESSON 72 THE OLD HOUSE CLOCK LESSON 73 THE EXAMINATION LESSON 74 THE ISLE OF LONG AGO LESSON 75 THE BOSTON MASSACRE LESSON 76 DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFUL LESSON 77 SNOW FALLING LESSON 78 SQUEERS’S METHOD LESSON 79 THE GIFT OF EMPTY HANDS LESSON 80 CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE LESSON 81 SOWING AND REAPING LESSON 82 TAKING COMFORT LESSON 83 CALLING THE ROLL LESSON 84 TURTLE SOUP LESSON 85 THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE LESSON 86 THE SOLDIER OF THE RHINE LESSON 87 THE WINGED WORSHIPERS LESSON 88 THE PEEVISH WIFE LESSON 89 THE RAINY DAY LESSON 90 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK LESSON 91 TRANSPORTATION AND PLANTING OF SEEDS LESSON 92 SPRING AGAIN LESSON 93 RELIGION THE ONLY BASIS OF SOCIETY LESSON 94 ROCK ME TO SLEEP LESSON 95 MAN AND THE INFERIOR ANIMALS LESSON 96 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT LESSON 97 A HOME SCENE LESSON 98 THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS LESSON 99 A CHASE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL LESSON 100 BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE LESSON 101 LITTLE VICTORIES LESSON 102 THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE LESSON 103 THE ART OF DISCOURAGEMENT LESSON 104 THE MARINER’S DREAM LESSON 105 THE PASSENGER PIGEON LESSON 106 THE COUNTRY LIFE LESSON 107 THE VIRGINIANS LESSON 108 MINOT’S LEDGE LESSON 109 HAMLET LESSON 110 DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG LESSON 111 A PEN PICTURE LESSON 112 THE GREAT VOICES LESSON 113 A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE LESSON 114 A SUMMER LONGING LESSON 115 FATE LESSON 116 THE BIBLE THE BEST OF CLASSICS LESSON 117 MY MOTHER’S BIBLE
内容摘要 This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts, originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami University McGuffey, had a profound influence on public education in the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that the selections were chosen from a number of sources, were considered remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book, excluding the Bible. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark. McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes. The fifth reader was designed for elocutionary exercises to increase articulation, inflection, pitch, accent, rate, emphasis and gesture. It contained poetry and prose by Sigourney, Montgomery, Addison, Irving, Young and Byron.
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