![]() ![]() She especially didn’t write it for young girls who make up the bulk of Black Beauty’s readership. ![]() ![]() Sewell didn’t write Black Beauty for children. ![]() Black Beauty is ostensibly a book written by a horse about us. The actual title of Sewell’s book is Black Beauty: His grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse, translated from the original equine by Anna Sewell. In case you’ve seen only film or television versions, Black Beauty, in spite of its grandmotherly prose, four-page chapters, and undisciplined use of exclamation points, is nothing less than a Banksy mural: art as poisoned-tipped spear. Since its publication in 1877, Black Beauty has sold approximately 50 million copies, placing it on every all-time best-seller list, located somewhere between various Harry Potters and Charlotte’s Web. Here it is, resurrected:Īnna Sewell wrote only one book in her lifetime: Black Beauty. He decided the structure didn’t work and cut the material. In fact, in the first draft of his story, Jeff included a section about that book, which was written by Anna Sewell. As Jeff and I talked about the story and he worked his way through the writing, he kept bringing up parallels between his story and Black Beauty. For the August issue of D Magazine, Jeff Bowden wrote a story about a girl who loved and lost a horse and how the two were reunited. ![]()
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