Black Beauty
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  • Published: 28 January 1994
  • ISBN: 9781857159165
  • Imprint: Childrens Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $40.00

Black Beauty

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8 Jul 2025
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15 Oct 2018
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2 Jun 2008
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22 Oct 2019
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15 Aug 2017
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25 Oct 2011
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4 Jan 2011
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2 Jun 2008
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6 Mar 2008
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1 Aug 2012
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21 Oct 2011
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4 Jan 2011
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12 May 2008
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12 Dec 2000
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29 Oct 2010
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28 Jan 1994
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Described on the title-page of the first edition as 'the autobiography of her horse, translated from the original equine', BLACK BEAUTY was Anna Sewell's only book, written when she fatally ill but determined to record her passopnate indignation at the insensitive behaviour of people towards animals. It has been loved by children ever since its first publication in 1877, just a few months before the death of its author, whose declared aim had been to 'induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses'. The illustrations by Lucy Kemp-Welch first apperared in 1915.
  • Published: 28 January 1994
  • ISBN: 9781857159165
  • Imprint: Childrens Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $40.00
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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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