Anna Sewell

Azabache es la historia de un caballo contada por él mismo. Comienza con sus alegres días como potranco en una granja inglesa y sigue con su difícil vida en el Londres decimonónico tirando cabriolés. Durante su vida se encontrara con muchas dificultades y episodios de crueldad; pero tambien con la generosidad y piedad humanas.Con detalladas observaciones y extensas descripciones del comportamiento de los equinos esta novela es un canto al respeto que los humanos deben a los animales.

El protagonista de nuestro relato es un hermoso caballo negro con una infancia feliz, hasta que un desgraciado suceso obliga a su dueño a venderlo. Comienza así un largo trasiego con diferentes amos y toda clase de aventuras, en las que vivimos de cerca caracteres, costumbres, crueldades e incluso idearios politicos de las gentes mas diversas. Escrito desde el profundo respeto a los animales, el relato transmite sufrimiento, pero tambien alegria, comprension y amor. Una sucesion de emociones que lo han convertido en un clasico de la literatura no solo juvenil.

This new series of Bookworms offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary. Accompanying exercises make all these titles suitable for use in class or at home. Anna Sewell (1820-78) felt very strongly about cruelty to animals and wrote Black Beauty to persuade people to be kinder to horses. It was her only book and took her six years to write because of illness. She died soon after it appeared, and since then more than thirty million copies have been sold.

A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous animal stories in the world. Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty. Bravely he works as hard as he can, suffering at the hands of men who treat animals badly. But Black Beauty has an unbreakable spirit and will, and is determined to survive . . .

This stunning Oxford Children''s Classic edition is the perfect introduction to Black Beauty-the ultimate story of hope.Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Hannah Gold, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more . . .

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I hope you will grow up gentle and good Black Beauty begins his life on an idyllic English farm before moving to Birtwick Park, where he is treated with kindness and love.After he is forced to leave his perfect home, Black Beauty quickly discovers how harsh Victorian England can be for a working horse. His unbreakable spirit is soon put to the test and Black Beauty must fight to survive in this cruel new world.About The Complete Children's Classics Collection:The Childrens Classics Collection contains beloved stories, including Alices Adventures in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Secret Garden and more. Fall down the rabbit hole, follow the yellow brick road and unlock the secret door into a world of wonder and enchantment.

Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that a horse is recounting the exploits in the narrative.The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. After many unpleasant episodes, including one where he becomes a painfully overworked cab horse in London, Black Beauty finally canters towards a happy ending. Although Anna Sewell's classic is set firmly in the Victorian period, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.

Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty''s life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era.

Anna Sewell's moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written, this Penguin Threads edition of Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps...

Black Beauty es la historia de la vida y aventuras de un caballo en la Inglaterra victoriana. El relato, en primera persona, emociona a todos los amantes de los animlaes, y en particular, a los amantes de los caballos. Incluye CD de audio complementario, en ingles. En el CD no se ofrece en absoluto una simple lectura, sino que el texto ingles es convertido en un talking book, donde voces de actores reales britanicos, junto con abundantes efectos ambientales, dan vida a la historia. Duracion del audio: 1 hora, 8 min.Palabras clave: bestseller, Susan Taylor, Ana Merino, bilingue, novedad ingles, español, CD en ingles, juvenil, intermedio, animales, audiolibro,

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