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(Summary by Cori Samuel, Wikipedia, and Mary Kay) The story is narrated in the first person and each short chapter relates an incident in Black Beauty's life, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. It was early in the spring there had been a little frost in the night and a light mist still hung over the plantations and meadows. Before I was two years old, a circumstance happened, which I have never forgotten. The protagonist and narrator of the novel is Black Beauty, a horse whose inborn.

Narrated in the first person as the fictional autobiography of a horse, it is notable for its enduring popularity and for being the first popular work of children's literature about animals. The title page of the first edition states that it was 'Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell.' After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become an immediate bestseller, as well as it encouraging the better treatment of many cruelly-treated animals.Īlthough initially intended for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. Read The Hunt of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Black Beauty is an 1877 children's novel by English writer Anna Sewell. LibriVox recording of Black Beauty (Dramatic Reading) by Anna Sewell.īlack Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness.

Black beauty by anna sewell