“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”
A well-known author of children literature, Anne Sewell published Black Beauty in 1877. Developed in first person narrative, the book is written in the style of an animal autobiography of its central character, Black Beauty. The story recounts and traverses through the experiences of Black Beauty starting from his childhood until his retirement.
Black Beauty enables the readers to explore the themes of compassion and understanding in man-animal relationship with all its complexity and promotes love and kindness to be abided by all!
Product Details
- Reading level: 8 - 12 years
- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Maple Press (1 September 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9789380005744
- ISBN-13: 978-9380005744
- ASIN: 9380005741
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.1 x 21.6 cm
About the Author
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty. Sewell's only published work was Black Beauty, written in the period between 1871 and 1877, after she had moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk. During this time her health was declining. She was often so weak that she was confined to her bed and writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years of age. Although it is now considered a children's classic, she originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "a special aim was to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses".
