Black Beauty, The Autobiography of a Horse

Black Beauty is the only published novel by Anna Sewell. She composed it in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication. She lived long enough to see her novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold untill today, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.