Black beauty [electronic resource] : The autobiography of a horse. Anna Sewell.
An autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty. Beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: New.
- Publisher: London : Sovereign, 2012.
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- Text Difficulty 6 - Text Difficulty 81020 Lexile.
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