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Black Beauty : his grooms and companions : the autobiography of a horse / by Anna Sewell ; edited by Kristen Guest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878. Black Beauty.
- Sewell, Anna.
- Horses--England--19th century--Fiction.
- Horses.
- Black Beauty (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Black Beauty (Fictitious character).
- Horses in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Continuously in print and translated into multiple languages since it was first published, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a classic work of children's literature that is also an important text in the fields of Victorian studies and animal studies. The new Cambridge Scholars Publishing critical edition reproduces the first edition of 1877, restoring material often abridged in other modern editions. It also includes a critical introduction; contextual material that places the novel in historical...
- Contents:
- Anna Sewell : a brief chronology
- Black Beauty : his grooms and companions : the autobiography of a horse
- Appendices : contemporary documents. A. Victorian science and religion : questions of animal emotion. I. From Frances Power Cobbe, "The rights of man and the claims of brutes" (1863) ; II. From Charles Darwin, The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) ; III. From Philip Hamerton, Chapters on animals (1874)
- B. Victorian industry : horse and machine. I. Fanny Kemble: "Letter August 26, 1830," from Record of a girlhood (1878) ; II. From W.J. Gordon, The horse world of London (1893)
- C. Animal cruelty, equine management, and the bearing rein. I. From Edward Fordham Flower, Bits and bearing reins (1875) ; II. From Samuel Smiles, Duty (1880) ; III. From S. Sidney, The horse book (1893)
- Explanatory notes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]).
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43626-4
- 1-4438-3438-6
- 9786613436269
- OCLC:
- 817057023
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