Black Beauty
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
With Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell hoped to make people care about the cruel abuses that cab horses were suffering—bought and sold, whipped, and worked to exhaustion. Sewell tells the story from the perspective of Beauty, a horse who lived an idyllic life on a farm in the English countryside until he was sold and forced to pull cabs in London. In this way, she invites us to empathize with her animal hero.
Black Beauty did, in fact, change hearts and minds. Shortly after its publication in 1877, it became illegal to use bearing reins, which were designed to hold a horse’s head at a painful, unnatural angle. Almost 150 years later, Sewell’s classic has become one of the best-selling books of all time.
Customer Reviews
black beauty
a good book, the story goes around the horse and all his owners. A pleasant reading to all the family, especially kids.
If you like horses or if you are a horse groom, rider or farrier, its mandatory to read this book, for it shows very well how to treat a horse and take care of a horse.
also it have a easy vocabulary therefore is a good option if you want to learn english, that is my case.