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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell (1820–1878)

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  • 4 hours to read
  • 7 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"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.

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  • Historical fiction
  • Horses
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Great Britain · History · 19th century

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Part I

Chapter
01 My Early Home
02 The Hunt
03 My Breaking In
04 Birtwick Park
05 A Fair Start
06 Liberty
07 Ginger
08 Ginger's Story Continued
09 Merrylegs
10 A Talk in the Orchard
11 Plain Speaking
12 A Stormy Day
13 The Devil's Trade Mark
14 James Howard
15 The Old Hostler
16 The Fire
17 John Manly's Talk
18 Going for the Doctor
19 Only Ignorance
20 Joe Green
21 The Parting

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Contents

  1. Part I
  2. Part II
  3. Part III
  4. Part I
  5. Part II
  6. Part III
  7. Part IV

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About this edition

This free edition of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #271, released 2006-01-16. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Children & Young Adult Reading, Novels, Classics of Literature, British Literature.

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