Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, is an 1877 novel that teaches how to treat animals and people with kindness, sympathy, and respect.
She wrote whilst bed ridden and died five months after it was published. The novel became an immediate best-seller so she lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. It continues to be a best selling book.
Recommendations from our site
“As a horsey young girl, it was a wonderful book to have read to you. It was written in 1877, in the first person – ground-breaking at the time.” Read more...
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