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McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (McGuffey's Readers)

by McGuffey Author

(From Amazon): Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The Fifth Eclectic Reader includes selections from Washington Irving, Daniel Webster, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, and Bret Harte.

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0-471-28892-6
Print Status
In Print
Lessons
117
Pages
352
Publisher
Wiley
Edition
Revised Edition
Copyright
1997

Lessons

  • 1 The Good Reader
  • 2 The Bluebell
  • 3 The Gentle Hand T.S. Arthur
  • 4 The Grandfather C. G. Eastman
  • 5 A Boy on a Farm
  • 6 The Singing Lesson
  • 7 Do not Meddle
  • 8 Work Eliza Cook
  • 9 The Maniac
  • 10 Robin Redbreast
  • 11 The Fish I Didn't Catch
  • 12 It Snows
  • 13 Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded
  • 14 The Sands o' Dee
  • 15 Select Paragraphs Bible
  • 16 The Corn Song
  • 17 The Venomous Worm
  • 18 The Festal Board
  • 19 How to Tell Bad News
  • 20 The Battle of Blenheim Southey
  • 21 I Pity Them
  • 22 An Elegy on Madam Blaize Goldsmith
  • 23 King Charles II and William Penn Mason
  • 24 What I Live For
  • 25 The Righteious Never Forsaken
  • 26 Abou Ben Adhem
  • 27 Lucy Forrester
  • 28 The Reaper and the Flowers
  • 29 The Town Pump
  • 30 Good Night
  • 31 An Old Fashioned Girl
  • 32 My Mother's Hands
  • 33 The Discontented Pendulum
  • 34 The Death of the Flowers
  • 35 The Thunderstorm
  • 36 April Day
  • 37 The Tea Rose
  • 38 The Cataract of Lodore Southey
  • 39 The Bobolink
  • 40 Robert of Lincoln Bryant
  • 41 Rebellion in Massachusetts State Prison
  • 42 Faithless Nelly
  • 43 The Generous Russian Peasant
  • 44 Forty Years Ago
  • 45 Mrs. Caudle's Lecture
  • 46 The Village Blacksmith
  • 47 The Relief of Lucknow "London Times"
  • 48 The Snowstorm
  • 49 Behind Time
  • 50 The Old Sampler
  • 51 The Goodness of God
  • 52 My Mother
  • 53 The Hour of Prayer
  • 54 The Will
  • 55 The Nose and the Eyes
  • 56 An Iceberg
  • 57 About Quail
  • 58 The Blue and the Gray
  • 59 The Machinist's Return Washington "Capital"
  • 60 Make Way for Liberty
  • 61 The English Skylark
  • 62 How Sleep the Brave
  • 63 The Rainbow
  • 64 Supposed Speech of John Adams
  • 65 The Rising
  • 66 Control your Temper
  • 67 William Tell
  • 68 William Tell
  • 69 The Crazy Engineer
  • 70 The Heritage
  • 71 No Excellence without Labor
  • 72 The Old House Clock
  • 73 The Examination
  • 74 The Isle of Long Ago
  • 75 The Boston Massacre
  • 76 Death of the Beautiful
  • 77 Snow Falling
  • 78 Squeers's Method
  • 79 The Gift of Empty Hands
  • 80 Capturing the Wild Horse
  • 81 Sowing and Reaping
  • 82 Taking Comfort
  • 83 Calling the Roll
  • 84 Turtle Soup
  • 85 The Best Kind of Revenge
  • 86 The Soldier of the Rhine
  • 87 The Winged Worshipers
  • 88 The Peevish Wife
  • 89 The Rainy Day
  • 90 Break, Break, Break
  • 91 Transportation and Planting of Seeds
  • 92 Spring Again
  • 93 Religion the only Basis of Society
  • 94 Rock Me to Sleep
  • 95 Man and the Inferior Animals
  • 96 The Blind Men and the Elephant
  • 97 A Home Scene
  • 98 The Light of Other Days
  • 99 A Chase in the English Channel
  • 100 Burial of SirJohn Moore
  • 101 Little Victories
  • 102 The Character of a Happy Life
  • 103 The Art of Discouragement
  • 104 The Mariner's Dream
  • 105 The Passenger Pigeon
  • 106 The Country Life
  • 107 The Virginians
  • 108 Minot's Ledge
  • 109 Hamlet
  • 110 Dissertation on Roast Pig
  • 111 A Pen Picture
  • 112 The Great Voices
  • 113 A Picture of Human Life
  • 114 A Summer Longing
  • 115 Fate Bret Harte
  • 116 The Bible the Best of Classics
  • 117 My Mother's Bible

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