A sympathetic hero who faces danger and excitement, Black Beauty never wavers in his principles, and the powerful lessons he teaches influenced animal welfare in England and America. Describing his life as a horse in Victorian England, he tells of his equine companions and human carers, and of the unthinking brutality to which horses were often subjected. Black Beauty's moving story recounts his idyllic colthood and his experiences at the hands of a variety of owners, good and bad. It was written not for children, but to expose and prevent cruelty to horses, and is a classic of Victorian literature that continues to captivate readers young and old. 'I have heard men say, that seeing is believing but I should say that feeling is believing.'Īnna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in English.
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