Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell (Author), Anna Sewell (Author), Anna Sewell (Author), Robin McKinley (Editor), S. Jeffers (Illustrator)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.28

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $14.87

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.28

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

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $8.61

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $14.22

  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.