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Black Beauty


Worlds Classics

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No. of pages 239

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`Translated from the equine', as the title page of the first edition announces, Black Beauty is one of the most celebrated of all animal stories. The account of a horse's experience at the hands of many owners, it describes the excitements of Black Beauty's early life - escape from a blazing stable, narrow avoidance of a flood, and more than one ride on desperate errands of mercy. The horse's later years are a moving record of injury, ill-treatment, and decline, reversed at last by an idyllic ending. First published in November 1877, the book had sold over 100,000 copies by the time of Anna Sewell's death in April 1878. The author intended the book to be an admonishment to horse owners in a period when England contained an enormous population of working horses and cruelty was commonplace. Yet Black Beauty succeeds as a dramatic and compelling story while effectively fulfilling its humanitarian purpose. This book is intended for general readers, especially those interested in horses or animal welfare. Also children, students of 19th century literature and popular literature, postgraduate and undergraduate students of children's literature and student teachers of English.

 

This book is part of a book series called Worlds Classics .

There are 239 pages in this book. This book was published 1992 by Oxford University Press .

Anna Sewell (1820-78) was a British novelist. Black Beauty was her only published work. Edited with an Introduction by Peter Hollindale, Senior Lecturer in English and Education at the University of York

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Black Beauty
When he comes of age, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a grand house to be a carriage horse. The groom, Joe, is kind but his masters are cruel. Every day Beauty and his fellow horse, Ginger, are shackled to the carriage with a tight bearing rein to keep their heads held high, and the two horses are whipped and generally mistreated. When Ginger misbehaves she is taken away. When Beauty smashes his knee he is sold to a London cabby. Pulling a cab through all the weather is hard work but Jerry is kind to Beauty and he is happy. Then Jerry is offered a job as groom by a customer and has to sell Beauty. His next master is harsh and cruel. But then Black Beauty is rescued by a horse doctor and at the doctors stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctors fields, happy and cared for.

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