by Anna Sewell · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141321035
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«Black Beauty» is Anna Sewell's classic children's novel, published by Puffin Classics in paperback (262 pages, in English).
The story, told by the horse himself, follows Black Beauty from his free childhood in the countryside to the hard work and mistreatment he suffers after being sold, with also moments of friendship and care. It is a plea against cruelty to animals that invites empathy.
The work was originally published in 1877. This Puffin Classics edition includes an introduction by Meg Rosoff.
Recommended for young readers, especially for lovers of horses and classics of children's literature.
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.
