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Experienced teachers of English have long recognized the importance of the idiom in introducing color and adding grace and precision to speech and writing. People the world over who are studying English as a second language do not find it easy to use idiomatic expressions fluently. Even those well...

PREFACE The House of the Seven Gables is the first of ten American Classics that I have chosen to simplify and adapt for use by foreign students and others in need of readers with an easier vocabulary. The most pleasurable way of learning a foreign language is through reading; yet there is very...

The elementary reader consists of reading selections designed for the elementary or low intermediate student. It can be used for class work after the first six months or the first year of study, depending upon the student's progress. A slow class, or one which meets only a few times a week, may...