Black Beauty

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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this new resized edition of Black Beauty complete with a bold new cover. 'Do your best wherever it is,... Read More
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Black Beauty

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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this new resized edition of Black Beauty complete with a bold new cover.

'Do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.'

Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt, he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty.

Bravely he works as hard as he can, suffering at the hands of men who treat animals badly. But Black Beauty has an unbreakable spirit and will, and is determined to survive...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241735312

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin Classics

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Anna Sewell (1820-78) was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Black Beauty, her only book, was completed and published in 1877, just a few months before she died, so she did not live to know of the book's huge success. Apart from being a good story, Black Beauty was instrumental in changing people's attitudes towards horses, and domestic animals in general.

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