McGuffey's Eclectic Readers

Author: William H. McGuffey [USA]
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: In the United States and Western European countries, there is a renowned set of supplementary reading materials specifically compiled for children that has remained best-selling for over a century. This book series, with sales reaching 180 million copies, is called "McGuffey's Readers." The American "Publishers Weekly" ranked it third in the list of the most books in human history, only after the "Bible" and "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong." American media have called it a book that has influenced five generations of Americans, with almost everyone who has received an education having read "McGuffey's Readers."