by Anna Sewell, D. K. Swan · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582541450
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«Black Beauty» is the novel by Anna Sewell adapted by D. K. Swan, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Black Beauty, a horse, recounts in the first person his experiences in nineteenth-century England, alternating kind owners with others who treat him harshly. The story invites reflection on empathy and care towards animals, in a text adapted for reading in English.
It belongs to the Longman Classics collection, at Stage 1 level, with an abridged edition and illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
Intended for young readers and students of English as a foreign language who are beginning to read adapted classics.
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.
