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'Black Beauty' is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed 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, but long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, 'Black Beauty' is one of the best-selling books of all time.

While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey 'The Big Read'.

Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16th October 1854–30th November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14th 1894–September 3rd 1962), known as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature.

John Michael Crichton (October 23rd 1942-November 4th 2008) was an American best-selling author, physician, producer, director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction and thriller genres.

International best-selling, award-winning author and speaker, L.R.Knost, is an independent child development researcher and founder and director of the advocacy and consulting group, Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources, as well as a monthly parenting and education contributor to The Natural Parent Magazine.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30th 1835 – April 21st 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9th 1934 – December 20th 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

Sagan wrote many popular science books such as 'The Dragons of Eden', 'Broca's Brain' and 'Pale Blue Dot'.

He narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, 'Cosmos' has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book 'Cosmos' was published to accompany the series.

He also wrote the science fiction novel 'Contact', the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.