by Anna Sewell, Anthony Toyne · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194217255
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«Black Beauty» is the classic novel by Anna Sewell, adapted by Anthony Toyne and published by Oxford University Press in paperback (32 pages, in English).
Black Beauty, a black horse, tells his own life story from being a foal in the countryside to the owners and homes he passes through, some kind and others cruel. This Oxford Graded Readers edition presents the text in English with simplified vocabulary and structures for language learners.
Level 500 words (Senior Level), abridged text; the edition is from 1973 and the original novel from 1877.
It is intended for young readers and students of English approaching the classics in adapted form.
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.
