| gen. |
reader (a book containing extracts of a text or texts, designed to give learners of a language practice in reading. NOED Alexander Demidov); compendium (a. • a brief compilation or composition consisting of a reduction and condensation of the subject matter of a larger work • abridgment, abstract : a one-volume compendium of the multivolume original b. • a work treating in brief form the important features of a whole field of knowledge or subject matter category: a compendium of physics c. • a list of a number of brief items • catalog, inventory: a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young … novelist – Time. WTNI Alexander Demidov) |
