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Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

language ( May 2, 2014)
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell were a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house because of her illness. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty became a forerunner to the pony book genre of children's literature. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

*This book contains a small biography of the author.
*50 high resolution Illustrations from the Altemus edition 1897.
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186

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