Black Beauty (2014)

Anna Sewell

Published:	2014, June 19
Authors:	Anna Sewell
Pages:	118
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

Black Beauty is an novel by English author Anna Sewell. The novel became an immediate best-seller and is one of the best-selling books of all time. The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour.