Anna Sewell
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. 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. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It is seen as a forerunner of the pony book.
The impact of the novel is still very much recognized today. Writing in the Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, Bernard Unti calls Black Beauty "the most influential anticruelty novel of all time". Comparisons have also been made between Black Beauty and the most important social protest novel in the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on account of the strong degree of outrage and protest action that both novels triggered in society.
A True Classic for Equestrians, Animal Lovers, and Social Activists!- ISBN
- 167961052X / 9781679610523
- Pages
- 129
- Weight
- 11.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 0.3 in.
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