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Black Beauty

Anna Sewell · 1877
85%of this book is inside a 1600-word core English vocabulary
60,024words in the book
3,994different words
2,230beyond the core

Ranked #2 of 32 — easiest first.

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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook…

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