{"product_id":"black-beauty-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Sewell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJane Smiley\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eJillian Tamaki\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the best-loved animal adventures ever written\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Penguin Threads edition of Anna Sewell's moving novel \u003ci\u003eBlack Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Anna Sewell\u003c\/b\u003e (1789-1884) was born in Norfolk, England, and was disabled much of her life due to an accident. \u003ci\u003eBlack Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is her only published novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJillian Tamaki\u003c\/b\u003e is an illustrator and comic artist and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGilded Lilies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIndoor Voice\u003c\/i\u003e and the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eSkim\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year. Her drawings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJane Smiley\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e and a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in northern California.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.77 x 5.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753835888928,"sku":"9780143106470","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0669b33f05b9610699af37b71dbd50f7.webp?v=1780028145","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/black-beauty-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}