![]() ![]() This book has 59,820 words, 122 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1877. ![]() ![]() № 23 in Goodreads 100 Best Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Novels. She died five months after Black Beauty came out, but did live long enough to see it become a success. It had a big impact on the way people thought about horse cruelty and the book has been compared to Uncle Tom's Cabin in the way it influenced social protest.Īt the time of publication, the author was an invalid who didn't leave her house. Although now it is seen as a children's book, Sewell wrote it to educate adults on the ways in which horses were treated - in particular it mentions the conditions of horses pulling cabs in Victorian London, with emphasis on the restrictive objects used on them, such as blinkers and reins. Beginning with his life on a farm in England, the story tells how he is passed from owner to owner and experiences acts both of cruelty and of kindness. One of the best-selling books of all times, the book is narrated as a first person account of a horse called Black Beauty. Or read online.īlack Beauty is a novel by English author Anna Sewell, first published in 1877. Black Beauty Anna SewellĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. ![]()
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