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Black Beauty
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  • Published: 12 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9780440416456
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $17.99

Black Beauty

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Paperback
8 July 2025
Paperback
15 Oct 2018
Paperback
1 Aug 2012
Hardback
22 Oct 2019
EBook
15 Aug 2017
EBook
25 Oct 2011
EBook
4 Jan 2011
EBook
2 June 2008
Audiobook
6 Mar 2008
Paperback
21 Oct 2011
Paperback
4 Jan 2011
Paperback
12 May 2008
Paperback
12 Dec 2000
Hardback
29 Oct 2010
Hardback
28 Jan 1994
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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Black Beauty's story, as told by himself, is the fascinating tale of the life of a horse a hundred years ago, when horses were a part of daily life.

Although his early colthood is happy, Black Beauty later tastes the bitterness of cruel handlers and indifferent masters as he passes from hand to hand, progressing from the country to London and back again.

This, the most famous horse story ever written, is a must on everyone's reading list.
  • Published: 12 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9780440416456
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $17.99
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About the author

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 was always concerned with the treatment of the animals she so relied upon. She wrote Black Beauty in order to convince a wide audience of the importance of the humane treatment of animals. It is her only novel, and Anna Sewell died shortly after it's publication, little guessing how well-known and widely loved her story would become.

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