Black Beauty, Young Folks' Edition

Anna Sewell 지음

이새의나무 2022년 05월 02일 출간

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Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.
While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect.
The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty―beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.

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CHAPTER I MY EARLY HOME
CHAPTER II THE HUNT
CHAPTER III MY BREAKING IN
CHAPTER IV BIRTWICK PARK
CHAPTER V A FAIR START
CHAPTER VI MERRYLEGS
CHAPTER VII GOING FOR THE DOCTOR
CHAPTER VIII THE PARTING
CHAPTER IX EARLSHALL
CHAPTER X A STRIKE FOR LIBERTY
CHAPTER XI A HORSE FAIR
CHAPTER XII A LONDON CAB HORSE
CHAPTER XIII DOLLY AND A REAL GENTLEMAN
CHAPTER XIV POOR GINGER
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI MY LAST HOME

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Black Beauty is seen as a forerunner of the pony book. This novel is considered to be one of the first fictional animal autobiographies.

She said that her purpose in writing the novel was "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses".

Narrated by the main character, Black Beauty, the novel is read by thousands of adult and children worldwide!

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저자(글) Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell (1820-1878) was an English novelist. She is known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work, which is considered one of the top ten best selling novels for children, although the author intended the work for an adult audience. Sewell died only five months after Black Beauty's publication.