About “Beautiful Joe”
Beautiful Joe is an 1893 novel by Margaret Marshall Saunders that contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty. The story is based on a dog of the same name from the town of Meaford, Ontario, and it was the first Canadian book to sell over one million copies. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.