BLACK BEAUTY: With 17 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link

The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty. Beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country.

It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become an immediate bestseller. Although initially intended for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. With Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behavior lending this novel a good deal of verisimilitude.

This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended. First published in 1877.

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