Black Beauty
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  • Published: 8 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241735312
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $23.00

Black Beauty

Formats & editions
Paperback
8 Jul 2025
Paperback
15 Oct 2018
Paperback
2 Jun 2008
Hardback
22 Oct 2019
EBook
25 Oct 2011
EBook
4 Jan 2011
EBook
2 Jun 2008
Audiobook
6 Mar 2008
Paperback
1 Aug 2012
Paperback
21 Oct 2011
Paperback
4 Jan 2011
Paperback
12 May 2008
Paperback
12 Dec 2000
Hardback
29 Oct 2010
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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this new resized edition of Black Beauty complete with a bold new cover.

'Do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.'

Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty. Bravely he works as hard as he can, suffering at the hands of men who treat animals badly. But Black Beauty has an unbreakable spirit and will, and is determined to survive. . .
  • Published: 8 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241735312
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $23.00
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About the author

Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell was born in 1820 and lived with her family in Norfolk and then in a village on the outskirts of London. At the age of fourteen Anna injured her ankles in a fall, and was severely disabled for the rest of her life. She had to travel everywhere in horse-drawn carriages, and so Anna was always concerned with the treatment of the animals she so relied upon. She wrote Black Beauty in order to convince a wide audience of the importance of the humane treatment of animals. It is her only novel, and Anna Sewell died shortly after it's publication, little guessing how well-known and widely loved her story would become.

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