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Black Beauty: A Classic Story of Courage, Kindness, and the Humane Treatment of Animals
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515438076
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Black Beauty is one of the most beloved animal stories in English literature and a landmark novel of compassion, hardship, and humane reform. Told in the voice of a horse, Anna Sewell's classic follows Black Beauty from a gentle early life through labour, neglect, kindness, injury, and recovery, revealing the moral character of human beings through the way they treat the animals in their care. Written with unusual sympathy and directness, the novel helped change public attitudes toward horses and remains a powerful story of dignity, endurance, and mercy.
First published in 1877, Black Beauty has endured as both a children's classic and a serious work of social conscience. Its appeal rests not only in the charm of its narrator, but in Sewell's clear-eyed portrayal of cruelty, class, work, responsibility, and kindness. A foundational horse story and animal welfare novel, Black Beauty continues to speak to readers interested in classic children's literature, Victorian fiction, animal stories, humane education, and the enduring bond between people and animals.
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