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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Critical edition ed. Oxford World's Classics.

This scholarly edition of Black Beauty, one of the bestselling novels ever written, includes an Introduction, extensive critical notes, and author and historical chronologies. It also provides a series of appendices including previously uncollated textual variants between the British (1877) and American (1890) first editions, illustrations from first UK and US editions and other documents that highlight the rarely considered but phenomenal impact of the novel’s American publication. The edition positions the novel as a text of multiple capacities: accessible horse care manual, children’s classic, Victorian protest novel, feminist text, autobiographical narrative, slave narrative.