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Black Beauty (in full: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, first
published November 24th 1877) is Anna Sewell's first and 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 foal 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 behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.
The book became an......
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