by Anna Sewell · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781409311249
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«Black Beauty» is the children's adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic, published by Penguin Books in hardcover (72 pages, in English).
Illustrated edition adapted for early readers of Anna Sewell's classic. It tells the life of a black horse from his youth, with his various owners and experiences: it includes his friendship with the mare Ginger and the treatment he receives, as well as details about the many jobs horses did before cars existed.
Part of the Ladybird Classics collection, with abridged text of Anna Sewell's original novel; the title sometimes appears as Black Beauty (Ladybird Classics).
Aimed at children starting to read and at adults who want to share aloud a first approach to the classic.
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.
