Black Beauty: Illustrated Edition
By Anna Sewell
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Newly commissioned illustrations by Victor Ambrus, an introduction by Naomi Lewis, and a format just the right size for young hands make this the edition of choice for a new generation of readers of Black Beauty.
Anna Sewell said that the aim of her "little book" was "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses." Though the book had scant influence when it was first published in 1877, it has since become a classic.
Black Beauty tells his own story: he was born to caring masters, allowed as a young horse to run free on a well-kept farm. Once away from his home, he is stripped of his name and his dignity, but never of his courage; his good nature and gentleness see him through the difficult life he must endure.
Anna Sewell's expert knowledge and thoughtful compassion for horses have ensured the lasting popularity and impact of this, her only book.
Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell was born in Norfolk, England. In 1871, she was told she had only a few months to live, but she spent the next five years writing Black Beauty. She lived to see it published in 1877.
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Reviews for Black Beauty
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent teen book
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Beauty is a horse. His first owner was not cruel to him so he felt more comfortable than any others because he had many terrible experiences.I don't always see horses, I have seen it once when I was eight years old and I rode it. He is more kind to me than I expected. I want to ride it again someday.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This books introduces younger literary members to tragedy without making it traumatizing. By subtly introducing heartbreak and ending on an uplifting moment, the idea that not every story that takes a turn for the worse will stay that way. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5God I fucking hate horses and absolutely fucking everything about them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The life of a horse told from a horse’s point of view. The horse seemed to accept that his life was to be controlled by humans (he never longed for days of roaming the wild prairie, for example) but he always wished that his masters be kind. Some were. Some were not. Sewell saw lots of cruelty toward horses and part of her reason for writing the book (as it says in the forward to this book) was to show the torment that many horses faced. I especially liked this version of the book, filled with illustrations of horse terms and places in London and depictions of complicated events in the story.