Black Beauty
- Publisher : Fingerprint Publishing/ Prakash Books
- Publishing year : November 2017
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9789386538154
- Imprint : Fingerprint
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
“It is good people who make good places.” Well-born and well-bred, the handsome horse named Black Beauty spe ...
“It is good people who make good places.” Well-born and well-bred, the handsome horse named Black Beauty spends his early days with his mother at an English farm. Treated with affection and kindness, he is encouraged to be good always. “. . . I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best, wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”As Black Beauty grows up and changes hands, will he be able to endure the cruel masters, keeping in mind his mother’s lessons of goodness?Bringing to light the mistreatment of horses in England in the nineteenth-century, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was a galloping success. One of the bestselling books of all time, it has been adapted for films and theatre and has been an inspiration for several other works of literature.
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty. Sewell's only published work was Black Beauty, written in the period between 1871 and 1877, after she had moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk. During this time her health was declining. She was often so weak that she was confined to her bed and writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years of age. Although it is now considered a children's classic, she originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "a special aim was to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses".
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