Black Beauty (Kingfisher Classics)

by Anna Sewell (Author), Anna Sewell (Author), Anna Sewell (Author), Ian Andrew (Illustrator)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  Beauty's first memories are of a large and pleasant meadow and his mother's hope that her son will grow up gentle and good and never learn bad ways . Black Beauty's character is tested by the many hardships he experiences, but whether saving his comrades from a fire, racing to fetch help for his beloved mistress, or working as a London cab horse, his brave and loyal nature shines through. Black Beauty is a moving record of man's cruelty to animals, but above all an exciting adventure story. Published in 1877, Black Beauty has become one of the best-loved classics of children's literature.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $15.63

• Used

  Hardcover
  1982

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $8.53

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $14.09

  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.