Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty' was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the hardship and cruelty he suffers subsequently, before finding security and happiness in a new home.

Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.

Illustrated excerpts from the nineteenth century classic relate the experiences of a young horse as he explores his home, plays with other colts, and learns from his loving mother to be gentle and good.

A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

When the young Black Beauty is sold, he has no idea of the hardships he’s about to face. Read his story in his own words as Black Beauty overcomes danger and cruelty, working at everything from pulling cabs in a smog-filled city to carriages in the country.

Black Beauty describes the three years during which he pulled Jerry Barker's London cab.

Black Beauty tells of his experiences at the Earl's stable, his stint as a "job horse," and his sale at a horse fair.