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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 little interesting ma-terial available, within the vocabulary rangé of the student.
The House of the Seven Gables in this edition has a vocabulary of only 750 words. The sentence structure is simple, though sufficiently varied in form so as not to be monotonous. Long descriptive passages as well as the philo-sophical emphasis which was popular in the writing of that period have been eliminated. What remains is a fast-moving story of love, murder and revenge . . . interesting for American students needing a simplified vocabulary, and alsó for foreign students who, wishing to do reading in English, may at the same time learn something of American life and customs.
The second book in this series of American Classics is "Moby Dick," with a vocabulary rangé of 1000 words; 250 new words have been added. In each of the books that follow there will be 200 new words.
The "American Classics" is therefore a series of carefully graded readers, beginning with a vocabulary of 750 words in the first book, and a vocabulary rangé of 2600 words in the tenth book. There is a book here for every level . . . for the beginner, the intermediate and the advanced student. A student reading the entire ten books in the series thus increases his vocabulary gradually and effortlessly to a rangé of almost 3,000 words.
The books which I have simplified and adapted are all