Black Beauty: Anna Sewell (Puffin Classics) Sewell, Anna Summary “It is good people who make good places.” ― Anna Sewell, Black BeautyBlack Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. “It is good people who make good places.” ― Anna Sewell, Black BeautyBlack Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but long enough to see her 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.Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories capture the heart and imagination of young readers. Highlights Easy to enjoy: 262 pages · Paperback By Sewell, Anna Details ISBN: 9780141321035 Author: Sewell, Anna Format: Paperback Pages: 262 Language: English Publication date: 6 March 2008 Condition: New About the author Sewell, Anna
