by Anna Sewell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621495
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«Black Beauty» is the classic novel by Anna Sewell, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Black Beauty narrates his own life from being a young and beloved horse until his owner is forced to sell him. The different masters who take him in, some kind and others cruel, mark his story, and his experiences portray nineteenth-century England and the treatment horses received.
The novel was originally published in 1877. This 1995 edition is part of the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
Recommended for young readers from about 9 years old and for adults who want to rediscover a children's and young adult classic about respect for 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.
