Black Beauty
'I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.'Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in English. It was written not for children, but to expose and prevent cruelty to horses, and is a classic of Victorian literature that continues to captivate readers young and old. Black Beauty's moving story recounts his idyllic colthood and his experiences at the hands of a variety of owners, good and bad. Describing his life as a horse in Victorian England, he tells of his equine companionsand human carers, and of the unthinking brutality to which h…
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Weitere Autoren: Gavin, Adrienne E. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-163577-9
- EAN: 9780191635779
- Produktnummer: 14480234
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'197 KB
- Abbildungen: c. 10 black and white
Über den Autor
Adrienne E. Gavin is the author of Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell (Sutton, 2004). She has published widely on children's literature, and is editor of the forthcoming The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary (Palgrave, 2012).
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