by Anna Sewell, Tricia Hedge · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230285
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«Black Beauty» is the novel by Anna Sewell, published by Oxford University Press in the Oxford Bookworms collection, in paperback (90 pages, in English).
Black Beauty narrates his life from a good country home to the harsh streets of the nineteenth century, where many horses suffer mistreatment. Between kind and cruel owners, the story shows human compassion and cruelty towards animals. The Oxford Bookworms edition adapts the story for English learners with a vocabulary of about 1,400 words.
Black Beauty is an abridged edition from Oxford Bookworms Library, level 4, with a vocabulary of 1,400 words; the publisher recommends it for readers aged 16 and over.
Aimed at English learners who want to read a classic of young adult literature in a graded edition.
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was the author of popular children's books. Sewell never married and always lived with her parents, in Sussex, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. A chronic illness left her leading a life of invalidism, with trips to spa resorts in England and continental Europe. She joined her mother in carrying out charitable work and also edited her mother's books. Black Beauty was written between 1871 and 1877 and published a few months before Sewell's death.
