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Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty became a forerunner to the pony book genre of children's literature. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
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"Not a super compelling read, but did a great job of putting me in the mindset of an animal. I've never really thought about what life would be like through the eyes of a horse and it was fascinating to be given a new perspective like that. A good book to read at least once in your life."
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Black Beauty Anna Sewell Collection Anna Sewell Books Reviews
- What is left to be said about a book that has sold over 50 million copies and did for the humane treatment of animals what Uncle Tom's Cabin did to help abolish slavery? Anna Sewell was a hundred years or more ahead of her time. She tried to see the world from the perspective of the horse, which is exactly what the modern concept of "Natural Horsemanship" attempts to do. The book is a collection of tales about the humans which come and go from the life of the horse named Black Beauty. Some are cruel and heartless, others are gentle and considerate. Some are hard-working and honest, others are selfish and vain. To the author, the horse is trusting, empathetic, and uncomplaining, in spite of the wrongs that he is subjected to. Anna Sewell sees in the horse qualities that she would like to see in people. And through her eyes we understand that a truly compassionate person has room in their heart for the considerate treatment of animals.
- I first read this story was probably over 20 years ago and I really didn't remember it. The first half of the book had me thinking that each chapter was written as a treatise on some particular horse abuse or pet peeve of the author. However, the book gets past this stage and not only becomes believable but very enduring. The main character is a well-born, noble fellow, which is fitting since he's a horse. His patience and acceptance of his fate makes him an easy character to feel empathy for. The tale makes perfect sense in the time period in which it was written as England at the time had been called the heaven of women and the hell of horses. I'd recommend this book for children and animal lovers of all ages.
- I love how it talks about how horses suffer for the sake of human vanity. This book very much shaped the way I look at and communicate with my animals from a very young age - particularly my horses. Many bits of this story play in my mind when I buy, sell and trail horses to this day.
- I only vaguely recalled reading a book by this name as a child, and so my heart leaped at the chance to read it again as an adult. I was not disappointed. I felt so many emotions reading this "horse's autobiography" that I would gladly read it a third time! Rest assured, any children I might have will know this story, and I will always be even more mindful of how I treat horses.
- Not a super compelling read, but did a great job of putting me in the mindset of an animal. I've never really thought about what life would be like through the eyes of a horse and it was fascinating to be given a new perspective like that. A good book to read at least once in your life.
- I ashamedly admit that until now /I had never read this book. I loved the fact that it was written in the horses' perspective (I had no idea that would be the case) and positively adored it. If there is a movie, I will never watch it as I think it would be positively ruinous to the perception I have formed of the book.
- ...read it again. When I was a child, I thought as a child, but now that I'm old, the truth that was speculative in childhood has been verified by the 50 years standing between then,and now. And it is as much of a delight, as much of a right well told tale as it ever was. It is immortal. It is at times very Black indeed, but always, always Beauty.
- I'M RETURNING THIS. It appears that Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, is in the public domain, available all over, free. I bought a copy, as I wanted a book to hold in my hands, vs. read electronically.
The book I received is published by a company called Millennium Publications, no address, copyright 2014.
It's tiny print, no pages between chapters, i.e., when a chapter ends in the middle of the page, the next chapter starts directly below on the same page. (All about cheap printing.) Not worth it. A rip-off.
