Black Beauty

By Anna Sewell

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
  • Release Date: 2015-01-01
  • Genre: Classics
Score: 4
4
From 32 Ratings

Description

Black 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.

Reviews

  • Awesome book

    5
    By Bunrabit
    This book was and still is my favorite childhood book. I hope generations to come will read this book - BunRabit