# Black Beauty

By Anna Sewell.

"Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell is a novel published in 1877. Told as an autobiography narrated by a horse, it follows Black Beauty from his carefree days as a foal through hardships as a working horse in London to eventual retirement. Through the horse's perspective, the story reveals both cruelty and kindness in Victorian England's treatment of animals. Each chapter presents moral lessons about compassion and respect, not only toward horses but toward all beings. The groundbreaking novel became an immediate bestseller and remains one of history's most-read books. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Historical fiction; Horses -- Juvenile fiction; Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction; Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/155) by Anna Sewell (6 h 15 min, English)
- [Black Beauty (version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/3550) by Anna Sewell (5 h 43 min, English)
- [Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/10065) by Anna Sewell (5 h 26 min, English)
- [Black Beauty (version 4)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/19591) by Anna Sewell (4 h 59 min, English)

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