National Velvet (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Bagnold, Enild

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405287500 ISBN 13: 9781405287500

Verlag: Egmont Books, 2017

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The most famous and loved racing story of all time. National Velvet is a classic tale of dreams, ambition and one girl's belief in a horse. `Velvet'll sit on a horse like a shadow and breathe her soul into it ., . . I never seen such a creature on a horse.'Fourteen year old Velvet is mad about horses., When she wins a piebald horse in a raffle, she knows he's something special. His heart is as big as the five-foot fences he jumps, and he'll do anything for Velvet. Soon, she and her friend Mi have their sights set on the biggest race in England., But can a girl win the Grand National?Perfect for horse and ponly lovers from nine to ninety nine years old. The book that inspired the classic film starring Elizabeth Taylor, National Velvet is a true classic of print and screen. Alongside Black Beauty and My Friend Flicka it is one of the great horse books for children., `My childhood dreams were based on this book - it was the only place I'd ever seen them come true' Clare Balding

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Enid Bagnold was born in 1889 and was mostly brought up in Jamaica. She was a nurse and a driver in France during the First World War. Enid Bagnold wrote poems, novels and plays, the most famous of which is The Chalk Garden. National Velvet is her most wellknown novel, and remains much-loved to this day.

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• Verlag: Egmont Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1405287500
• ISBN 13: 9781405287500
• Einband: Tapa blanda