DescriptionHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘…we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.’When his beloved owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt behind him and embarks on a working life of misery. Cruelly treated by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit can not be broken.Author BiographyAnna Sewell was born in Norfolk, England into a devout Quaker family. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell was a successful author children’s books and was Anna’s primary educator in religious and academic matters. BLACK BEAUTY is Anna’s only published novel, which her mother helped her transcribe during whilst she battled with ill health.