Black Beauty - CEF B1 ALTE Level 2 : Intermediate

This wonderful series is a quick way into a range of exciting stories, from the chilling tale of "Frankenstein", to the gripping adventure of "Treasure Island" and the powerful animal story of "Call of the Wild".

Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original.

It is available for the first time with an accompanying audio CD. "Black Beauty", by Anna Sewell, was published in 1877, only a year before the author's death.

Written from the animal's point of view, it tells the story of a working horse in Victorian England.

Black Beauty has to adapt to life with a series of different masters and grooms, some of them kindly but many of them cruel or thoughtless.

He survives flood, fire and fever until he feels ready to die, but then he is taken to yet another horse sale...