"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.

The timeless tale of a horse named BeautyWith his fine black coat, his one white foot, and the distinctive white star on his forehead, Black Beauty is a magnificent creature, the pride of Squire Gordon's country estate. But when the squire has to move abroad, Beauty's fortunes change, and at the hands of other masters he suffers the cruelty and disregard that were sadly all too common for horses in Victorian England. In his wise, candid, and endearing voice, Black B...

Is it possible that a horse can think, analyse the situation and come to conclusions like a human? It is possible! Anna Sewell states that in her famous novel “Black Beauty” where the story is told on behalf of an English noble blood stallion. This touching and rather sentimental story teaches us to understand horses better, to treat nature and animals more carefully and to think about simple but very important values of life. That’s what Anna Sewell wrote briefly about her novel “Black Be...

Black Beauty (in full: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, first published November 24, 1877) 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 (or "first horse") as an autobiographical memoir told by a highbred 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 retirem...

Told from the perspective of a horse, rather than a human, Black Beauty tells the life story of a horse, from his carefree youth spent in the apple orchards at an English farm, to working for a horse-drawn taxicab driver. Despite his many owners — some kind, some cruel — Black Beauty is determined to survive and earns a well-deserved retirement in the country.One of the best-selling books of all time, Black Beauty was an instant best-seller on publication in 1877. Anna Sewell’s onl...

This omnibus edition contains eight of the most loved children's books of all time. Your child will treasure this magical book throughout their childhood. Included are 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Black Beauty', 'The Wind in the Willows', 'The Adventures of Pinocchio', 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle', 'The Song of Hiawatha', 'Heidi', and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. This book will keep children captivated for hours on end and provided them with magical memories to last a life time....

The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated) gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of Christmas fiction, where domestic realism, fairy tale, moral parable, pastoral adventure, and child-centered fantasy converge. Its pages move between hearthside scenes of charity and reconciliation, enchanted landscapes, animal feeling, family rituals, and visions of childhood wonder. Illustrated presentation enhances the period's close association between seas...

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. 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 ...

The novel is notable for its strong animal rights message and its realistic portrayal of the treatment of horses during the Victorian era. Sewell used Black Beauty's story to highlight the cruel and often inhumane treatment of horses in the 19th century, particularly in urban areas where they were used to pull carts and carriages.The book was very popular at the time of its publication and has remained a classic of children's literature. It has been adapted into various forms of media, inc...

This children's classic was not written for children butt "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"—an influence the author attributed to an essay on animals she had read earlier by Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) entitled "Essay on Animals". Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare and is said to have been instrumental in abolishing the cruel practice of using the checkrein (or "bearing rei...

In a wonderful new version of Anna Sewell's classic about an extraordinary horse and the various owners whose lives he transforms, Black Beauty, a beautiful courageous black colt with a white star on its head, notes that, “Horses don't get to choose the people in our lives. For us it's all chance.”Black Beauty provides an especially important lesson for children since it reveals the vulnerability of animals, how they suffer at the hands of uncaring people, and how much pleasure the...

This beautifully illustrated collection includes five classic masterpieces. Readers set out with timid Mole as he explores the world, learning about courage and friendship through a series of misadventures with Rat, Toad, and Badger in The Wind in the Willows. From the River Bank, tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice to a madcap world where nonsense rules in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. From Victorian England, it's on to a small New England town in Little Women, where Jo March and h...