Black Beauty (Vintage Classics)

Author(s): Anna Sewell

Classics

Includes character guide, horse terms, quiz, author info, and historical horse info
"You saved your mistress's life, Beauty! Yes, you saved her life."
Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows, and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger and Merrylegs. But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is sold and goes from farm to inn to cabhorse in London, enduring rough treatment from foolish and careless masters. Beauty remains faithful, hardworking, and full of spirit despite his trials, and through him we learn that all horses and humans alike deserve to be treated with kindness.


Product Information

Anna Sewell was born in 1789 and lived with her family in Norfolk and then in a village on the outskirts of London. At the age of fourteen Anna injured her ankles in a fall, and was severely disabled for the rest of her life. She had to travel everywhere in horse-drawn carriages, and so Anna was always concerned with the treatment of the animals she so relied upon. She wrote Black Beauty in order to convince a wide audience of the importance of the humane treatment of animals. It is her only novel, and Anna Sewell died shortly after it's publication, little guessing how well-known and widely loved her story would become.

General Fields

  • : 9780099572930
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : November 2011
  • : August 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anna Sewell
  • : Paperback