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Black Beauty His Grooms and Companions the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell It was composed in the last years of her life during which she was bedridden and seriously ill The novel became an immediate bestseller with Sewell dying just five months after its publication but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success With fifty million copies sold Black Beauty is one of the bestselling books of all time
While forthrightly teaching animal welfare it also teaches how to treat people with kindness sympathy and respect In 2003 the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBCs survey The Big Read It is seen as a forerunner of the pony book
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