Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is a classic novel much beloved by both children and adults the world over.
This delightfully imaginative autobiographical memoir is told through the eyes of the wondrous horse Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm with his mother, following his difficult life pulling cabs in London, and ending with his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, Black Beauty faces many hardships and recounts numerous tales of both cruelty and kindness. Each chapter tells an incident in Black Beauty's life offering a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses.
While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, Black Beauty also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty is also seen as a forerunner of the pony book.
Included in the Black Beauty Collection are:
- Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse (1877), and
- Black Beauty - Young Folks' Edition (1902)
Black Beauty was written in 1877 by English author Anna Sewell. Black Beauty was composed in the last years of Anna's life, during a time when she was bedridden and seriously ill. The novel's success and connection with its audience was immediate becoming an instant best-seller. Unfortunately, Sewell died just five months after its publication, but she lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With more than fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.
This illustrated edition includes an interactive table of contents to aid readers' enjoyment.
