by Anna Sewell · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781407143590
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«Black Beauty» is Anna Sewell's children's novel published by Scholastic in paperback, with 256 pages, in English.
The horse Black Beauty tells his own life: first, a happy childhood in the countryside; then, hard work as a carriage horse in the city. Through his various owners, all different, the animal experiences human kindness and cruelty, in a story that invites treating animals with respect and empathy.
The work was originally published in 1877; this 2014 edition belongs to the Scholastic Classics collection.
For young readers starting out on the classics and for lovers of animal stories.
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.
