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"Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell, and is one of the most beloved horse stories of all time. As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners, some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again.

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 having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success.

“Black Beauty - The Autobiography of a Horse” is a 1911 novel by English author Anna Sewell (1820–1878). Having sold more than fifty million copies, it is among the top ten best-selling books of all time. The novel—originally intended for adults—was written in the last years of Sewell''s life while she was housebound, being published just five months before her death. While the primary theme of the novel is animal welfare, it also teaches the reader how and why people should be treated with kindness and respect, making it perfect for young minds. An absolute classic of children''s fiction that continues to be read and adored over a century after its first publication. Read & Co. Books are now republishing this classic work in a modern edition complete with a biography of the author by Elizabeth Lee.

Narrated by Black Beauty himself, he experiences happy youthful days as young horse on an English farm with his mother. He recounts his memoirs and story in life and goes on to grow up and become quite a handsome and capable horse. He experiences both tragedy and happiness and eventually finds himself in difficult days pulling cabs in London under harsh conditions. Each chapter of the story covers a moral lesson typically relating to kindness, sympathy and understanding. He eventually gets out of hardship to experience joy and relief in retirement.

Black Beauty Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare , it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. 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 lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.The book describes conditions among London horse-drawn taxicab drivers, including the financial hardship caused to them by high licence fees and low, legally fixed fares.

The autobiography of a horse By Anna Sewell 1820 - 1878

The story of Black Beauty 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 behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude. The book describes conditions among London horse-drawn taxicab drivers, including the financial hardship caused to them by high licence fees and low, legally fixed fares. A page footnote in some editions says that soon after the book was published, the difference between 6-day taxicab licences (not allowed to trade on Sundays) and 7-day taxicab licences (allowed to trade on Sundays) was abolished and the taxicab licence fee was much reduced.

Black Beauty was written in 1877 and was subtitled "The Autobiography of a Horse." It quickly became known as the best-loved animal story. In addition to this, the book achieved its aim to "induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses." The story was used first by George Angell, founder of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and then by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At a time when horses were relied upon for transport, the horse was the animal most likely to be abused. This book, by telling the story through the eyes of the animal, changed people''s attitudes.This abridged version comes with the original illustration on the front and with all the original illustrations in black and white throughout the book. Anna Sewell was an English novelist who''s only published work was Black Beauty, written during 1871 to 1877, after she had moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk. During this time her health was declining. She was often so weak that she was confined to her bed and writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years of age. Although it is now considered a children''s classic, she originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "a special aim [was] to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses."

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell''s only novel, composed in the last years of her life between 1871 and 1877 while confined to her house as an invalid.The story is told in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a horse named Black Beauty-beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm, 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 lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.

Black Beauty is the classic children''s book by English author Anna Sewell. A cripple for most of her life, Sewell developed an early love of horses, and the story intended to teach her readers about treating horses (and allegorically all living things) with kindness, patience and sympathy. The story is narrated first-person by Black Beauty, recounting his journey from a farm to the hard life pulling cabs in London to his eventual retirement.