by John Steinbeck · Macmillan Education · tapa dura · ISBN 9780435270339
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«The Red Pony» is the novel by John Steinbeck published by Macmillan Education in hardcover in the Heinemann Guided Readers series (58 pages, in English).
Jody Tiflin grows up on a ranch in northern California and receives from his father a pony named Gabilan. With the help of the employee Billy Buck, he cares for and trains it. When the animal falls ill, the boy must face lessons about nature and loss, a learning that marks his passage to maturity.
Edition adapted by Michael John Paine within the Heinemann Guided Readers series, Elementary level (E6).
Intended for English students who are beginning to read classics in graded version.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
