Black Beauty
Age 12 +
06 September 2018Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Black Beauty features illustrations by Cecil Aldin and an afterword by author and conservationist Lauren St. John.
Black Beauty enjoys a carefree upbringing in a pleasant meadow...
Details
06 September 2018240 pages
9781509865987Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
Laced with generous doses of moral virtue . . . Black Beauty has more integrity and decency than the average humanJustine Hankins, the Guardian
Sewell’s novel should be regarded as a work of protest literature, the forerunner less of Lassie or the novels of Christine Pullein-Thompson than of today’s animal rights activism and anti-hunting lobbyTelegraph
With vivid detail and simple, yet lyrical, prose, Black Beauty describes both the cruelty and kindness that an ebony-coloured horse experiences through his lifetimeNPR
