黑骏马Black Beauty

出版时间：2002-9  出版社：Dalmatian Press (2005年2月1日)  作者：Anna Sewell % Sibylle Delacroix (Illustrator)  
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ANNA SEWELL WROTE only one book. While sick in bed, she
    penned the story that would become one of the most loved
ever written--an autobiography of a gallant black horse named
Black Beauty.
  Anna was born on March 20, 182o, in Great Yarmouth in the
east of England. Raised as a Quaker, she learned compassion for
animals at an early age. Anna s mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was a
successful children s writer, and Anna learned the craft of writing
by editing her mother s work.
  Anna suffered a bone disease, and a fall at age fourteen left her
crippled. She walked with a crutch, but could ride and drive well,
often controlling horses by her voice alone. When the family could
afford to keep a horse, Anna would drive her father, a bank man-
 ager, to work every day.
   Her health, never strong after her injury, failed, and for the last
 ten years of her life Sewell was bedridden.When faced with a poor
 prognosis of survival, she began writing a story that she hoped
 would change the way people treated their horses. The story
 became Black Beauty, The Autobiography of a Horse, published in ~877, a
 groundbreaking novel told from the point of view of a horse.
   Anna Sewell died before she could see the phenomenal success
 of her book. Black Beauty sold thirty million copies in the next one
 hundred years (a fiction record), was the basis for multiple motion
 pictures, and inspired a popular series of children s books about
  horses through history. Sewell probably would have valued the
  book s success at reform more highly, however. Brick Beauty made