Black Beauty (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Sewell, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192828126 ISBN 13: 9780192828125

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

The only adult edition of Black Beauty (1877), this most celebrated of animal stories sold over 100,000 copies by the time of Anna Sewell's death in April 1878. "Translated from the equine" as the title page of the first edition announces, Black Beauty is the account of a horse's experience at the hands of many owners. Dramatic and compelling, this story also effectively fulfills the author's original humanitarian purposes as an admonishment to horse owners among whom cruelty to there animals was commonplace. _

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Review

"A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.

Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)"

From the Publisher

Black Beauty's tale, as told by himself, is the fascinating story of the life of a horse a hundred years ago, when horseswere a part of everyone's life.

Although his colthood and early life were happy, Black Beauty tastes the bitterness of cruel grooms and indifferent masters as he passes from hand to hand, progressing from the country to London and back again.

This, the most famous horse story ever written, is a must on everyone's reading list.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192828126
• ISBN 13: 9780192828125
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Hollindale Peter