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Black Beauty (1998), a musical adaptation with book and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Daniel Messé [27] Black Beauty Live (2011), adapted by James Stone and directed by Chris Ford. Black Beauty was adapted for the stage in 2011 by playwright James Stone.
- Anna Sewell
- 1877
Anna Sewell (/ ˈsjuːəl /; [2] 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) [1] was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. [3] Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty ...
Oct 15, 2024 · Black Beauty, the only novel by Anna Sewell and the first major animal story in children’s literature. The author wrote it “to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses”; it was published in 1877, shortly before Sewell’s death. Black Beauty, a handsome well-born, well-bred horse of the era before automobiles ...
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May 2, 2018 · Anna Sewell (March 30, 1820 – April 25, 1878) was a British novelist who had only one published book — Black Beauty — to her name. But what a book it is — a timeless classic that has enthralled generations of readers with its message of compassion toward animals. Anna was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in England, into a family that ...
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty, but long enough to see her only novel become a success.
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Black Beauty, first published in 1877, is a realistic animal story that focuses on the animal itself, not on a child’s interaction with an animal like so many other animal tales. Also unique is the presentation of the story using a horse as the first-person narrator; in other words, as if the horse wrote the story.
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BlackBeauty also became a 20th-century phenomenon. Of the British novelists of the 19th century, only the books of Charles Dickens proved more popular a century later. One writer has calculated that Black Beauty is the sixth most popular work in the English language. The book has been translated into French, Italian, Hindustani, and Japanese ...
