by Anna Sewell, John Escott · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791663
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«Black Beauty» is the juvenile classic by Anna Sewell adapted by John Escott, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (88 pages, in English).
The story follows Black Beauty, a horse who narrates his own life from a peaceful youth to his work as a riding horse and carriage horse. After a first home with kind owners, he experiences the harshness with which many horses were treated in the 19th century and recounts the injustices he suffers in his search for dignified treatment.
Graded reader at level 4 of Oxford Bookworms Library, with 1400 headwords, 15,400 words of text, and CEFR level B1/B2.
Intended for intermediate-level English students and for young people who want to read a classic with graded vocabulary.
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.
