by Anna Sewell · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140300642
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«Black Beauty» is Anna Sewell's juvenile novel, published by Puffin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Black Beauty tells his own story: a horse who travels across nineteenth-century England and passes through the hands of various owners, some kind and others negligent or cruel. Through his eyes, the novel reflects on the treatment of animals and has become a classic of children's and young adult literature.
The novel was originally published in 1877; this edition belongs to the Puffin Story Books collection.
Recommended for child and young adult readers, especially for lovers of horses and stories about animals.
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.
