She especially didn’t write it for young girls who make up the bulk of Black Beauty’s readership. Sewell didn’t write Black Beauty for children. Black Beauty is ostensibly a book written by a horse about us.
The actual title of Sewell’s book is Black Beauty: His grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse, translated from the original equine by Anna Sewell. In case you’ve seen only film or television versions, Black Beauty, in spite of its grandmotherly prose, four-page chapters, and undisciplined use of exclamation points, is nothing less than a Banksy mural: art as poisoned-tipped spear. Since its publication in 1877, Black Beauty has sold approximately 50 million copies, placing it on every all-time best-seller list, located somewhere between various Harry Potters and Charlotte’s Web. Here it is, resurrected:Īnna Sewell wrote only one book in her lifetime: Black Beauty. He decided the structure didn’t work and cut the material. In fact, in the first draft of his story, Jeff included a section about that book, which was written by Anna Sewell. As Jeff and I talked about the story and he worked his way through the writing, he kept bringing up parallels between his story and Black Beauty. Near Fine.For the August issue of D Magazine, Jeff Bowden wrote a story about a girl who loved and lost a horse and how the two were reunited. It has been heralded as one of the most important social protest novels in Britain. This anthropomorphic tale raised a public outcry for legislative action to alleviate the dire condition of animals and became a symbol for contemporary animal rights activists. Told in the first person, through Black Beauty's point of view, the novel highlighted animal sentience and attachment, human cruelty, and the dangers of treating living creatures as automata in an increasingly mechanized world. Written during the last years of her life, Black Beauty was Anna Sewell's attempt to draw attention to the mistreatment of animals, particularly horses, in Victorian England. A lovely example of a book that is difficult to find in collectible condition, housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell. Internally clean and complete including frontis and rear adverts: viii, 9-247. A lovely example with just a bit of fading and rolling to the spine, and gentle wear to extremities. Bound in Carter's C blue cloth binding stamped in gilt and black.
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