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Black Beauty (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Black Beauty (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Anna Sewell
Paperback
Publication Date: 21/10/2011

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One of the best-loved animal adventures ever written

This Penguin Threads edition of Anna Sewell's moving novelBlack Beautyincludes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps.

Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
ISBN:
9780143106470
9780143106470
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
21-10-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
212x143x15mm
Weight:
0.26kg
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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