Black Beauty (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author：Anna Sewell，Lauren St John (Introduction)

Hardcover: 240 pages

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library; New Edit/Cover edition (6 Sept. 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1509865985

ISBN-13: 978-1509865987

Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 15 cm

书籍简介

安娜·塞维尔著的《黑骏马》是一部以动物“马”为主人公，以马的视角，全面表现马的特征和情感的动物小说。动物文学的发展趋势就是这时发生改变的。尽管在这部小说中，一匹马说出不像马会说的话似乎有些荒谬，但是。从此以后，竭力揣摩动物的内心世界，尽可能真实地描写动物的生活和习性，被作为要求成为了动物小说的创作规定。后来的动物小说大家，像加拿大的西顿、美国的杰克·伦敦、英国的吉卜林，都在《黑骏马》的影响下，开启了真正的动物小说创作之旅。

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Black Beauty features illustrations by Cecil Aldin and an afterword by author and conservationist Lauren St. John.

Black Beauty enjoys a carefree upbringing in a pleasant meadow with his mother, where his gentle first master trains him well – until he is reluctantly forced to sell him. Through a long and varied life, Black Beauty passes from one owner to the next; some treat him well, others are so cruel that they inflict lasting damage.

Anna Sewell’s biographical novel about a horse is one of the bestselling books of all time, and her depiction of Victorian society’s harsh treatment of animals inspired significant changes to animal welfare in both the UK and America.

作者简介

安娜·塞维尔（Anna Sewell）

出生在英国诺福克郡，母亲是一位民歌作者和少年读物作家，父亲是一位令人尊敬的银行经理。安娜从小就对动物有强烈的爱心，憎恶以任何形式虐待动物。她似乎天生就对马有一种亲切感，《黑骏马》中涉及的大量的马术知识，显然出自作者一生的体验。

安娜十四岁时落下了残疾，从此拐杖就成了她行走时离不开的工具，但她仍然坚持自己驾驭由一匹矮种马拉的马车到处活动。她创作《黑骏马》的愿望就是引发人们的善心、同情心，使人们懂得该怎样对待动物。从《黑骏马》的故事中可以看出，作者不仅关心马，同样也关心人，对处境悲惨的人充满了同情和关爱。