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Black Beauty

A horse tells his own life, from meadow to cab rank.

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A horse narrates his life with a succession of owners, experiencing both kindness and mistreatment. Sewell's story asks readers to consider animals' needs and the responsibilities of their caretakers.

A By Anna Sewell
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Beauty narrates his own story: a good start in a kind home, then a series of owners of varying decency, the bearing rein, a spell as a London cab horse, and a great deal of hard use before an old age he did not expect to get.

Anna Sewell wrote it in her last years, explicitly to change how working horses were treated, and it worked: the book is credited with helping end the bearing rein in England.

  1. How first-person narration by a horse makes the case for animal welfare without a lecture.
  2. What the bearing rein was, and why Sewell campaigned against it so directly.
  3. How the succession of owners builds a picture of casual as well as deliberate cruelty.
  4. What Ginger’s story adds that Beauty’s alone would not.
  5. Why Jerry Barker the cabman is held up as the book’s standard of decency.
  6. How a novel written to change behaviour actually managed it.
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Author
Anna Sewell
Publisher
Lexicon Publishing
Language
English
Format
Paperback

Anna Sewell was an English novelist known for her only published work, the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is considered a classic of children's literature and a seminal work in animal welfare. The novel is written from the perspective of a horse and highlights the mistreatment of horses in Victorian England.

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TL-8BGJBR95
Category
Fiction

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