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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
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Description for Black Beauty
Hardcover. A series with silk-ribbon markers and headbands, gold stamping on front and spine, and the original colour illustrations on the jackets. Anna Sewell's classic story of a horse was her only book, written when she was fatally ill. Lucy Kemp-Welch's illustrations first appeared in 1915. Illustrator(s): Welch, Lucy Kemp-. Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Series
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857159165
SKU
V9781857159165
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About Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell was born in 1820 and lived with her family in Norfolk and then in a village on the outskirts of London. At the age of fourteen Anna injured her ankles in a fall, and was severely disabled for the rest of her life. She had to travel everywhere in horse-drawn carriages, and so Anna ... Read more
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