The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879

by William Holmes McGuffey

The most influential books in the history of American education, The McGuffey Readers not only taught reading skills and classic literature but also imparted idealized middle class virtues to millions of schoolchildren. This anthology organizes more than eighty selections from all six volumes of the 1879 edition into twelve thematic chapters, making it possible for readers to examine the cultural assumptions that permeated middle America in the nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312177666
• ISBN13: 9780312177669
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"