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The Æsop for ChildrenAesop
Short animal fables, each ending in a moral. The first stories most English readers ever meet.
10 texts15 minBeginnerMcGuffey's Second Eclectic ReaderWilliam Holmes McGuffeyClassroom readers from 1879, written to be read aloud by children learning their own language.
10 texts18 minBeginnerMcGuffey's Third Eclectic ReaderWilliam Holmes McGuffeyThe next reader in the same series: longer passages, and the sentences begin to turn.
20 texts60 minIntermediateBeasts and Super-BeastsSakiEdwardian social comedies that turn cruel in the last line. Very funny, very short, rarely kind.
12 texts2 hrAdvancedThe Four MillionO. HenryStories of ordinary New Yorkers, each built around a twist the author is famous for.
8 texts2 hrAdvanced