by Anna Sewell, Ellis Printha, Mary Bowen, Wendy Wren, Gill Munton · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780230719842
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Explorers 5 Black Beauty» is the graded reader of Anna Sewell's classic, published by Macmillan in paperback (80 pages, in English).
The story is set in 1820s England and follows the life of Black Beauty, a horse who passes through very different owners: some treat him with kindness and others with cruelty. Thus, the narrative shows a changing existence and the different ways horses were treated at the time.
2014 edition within the Macmillan English Explorers series, level 5. The adaptation of Anna Sewell's original novel is by Gill Munton.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language (ELT/ESL) looking for a graded reader to practise the language.
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.
