nkspas 's review for:

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

4.0

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Anna Sewell wrote this book in the 1870s while lying in bed as an invalid. She died five months after it came out but was alive long enough to see the book take off. And take off it did! 50 million copies sold and counting. A wonderful first-horse view of life from the mid-1800s which includes simple but profound lessons about kindness, friendship, and animal rights.