Black Beauty
An illustrated adaptation for younger readers of the classic work in which a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | An illustrated adaptation for younger readers of the classic work in which a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780375858925 (trade) 037585892X (trade) 9780375958922 (lib. bdg.) 0375958924 (lib. bdg.) |
| Author Notes: | She wrote "Black Beauty" when she was in her fifties, but died a year after it was published in 1877. While she never earned much from the book while she was alive, after her death, the novel snowballed into a something extraordinary. The book was about the abuses horses sustained in their lifetimes, but was told from the unique viewpoint of the horse. Even though the book was intended for children, it impacted all generations and caused everyone who read it to take a look at the inhumane treatment horses received. In the one hundred plus years since "Black Beauty" had been published, over 30 million copies have been printed. At least eight motion pictures have been made based on the novel and it is a well known children's classic. Anna Sewell died on April 25, 1878 in Old Catton, Norfolk. (Bowker Author Biography) |
