Anna Sewell was born in 1820 into a Quaker family whose respect for horses was out of step with the common view of the time, that animals should be worked until they dropped. Disabled in a fall aged 14, Anna lived all her life with her parents but became an expert carriage driver and, as editor and stern critic, helped her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, become a successful author of evangelical children's books. Anna wrote Black Beauty, her only book, in the last years of her life, as a plea for more humane treatment of horses. She died in 1878, a year after the novel was published to wide acclaim.
Belleza Negra también conocida como Azabache es uno de los libros más vendidos de todos los tiempos.
La obra es narrada en primera persona como una memoria autobiográfica contada por un caballo llamado Azabache (en inglés original, Black Beauty) -partiendo con sus alegres días como...
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