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Black Beauty


Illustrated Originals

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No. of pages 328

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Follow the moving story of Black Beauty, a sleek, well-bred horse, who leaves a pleasant meadow in the countryside for the dark streets of Victorian London. Complete and unabridged, this hardback gift edition of Anna Sewell's classic novel features beautiful illustrations by Fiona Hsieh throughout.

 

This book is part of a book series called Illustrated Originals .

There are 328 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Anna Sewell (1820-78) was a British novelist. Black Beauty was her only published work. Joanna Cooke is a writer who spent ten years living in the Sierra, working as an environmental educator and National Park Service Ranger in Yosemite National Park. Fiona Hsieh specializes in painting animals and lush, atmospheric landscapes for animated movies and picture books.

This book contains the following story:

Black Beauty
When he comes of age, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a grand house to be a carriage horse. The groom, Joe, is kind but his masters are cruel. Every day Beauty and his fellow horse, Ginger, are shackled to the carriage with a tight bearing rein to keep their heads held high, and the two horses are whipped and generally mistreated. When Ginger misbehaves she is taken away. When Beauty smashes his knee he is sold to a London cabby. Pulling a cab through all the weather is hard work but Jerry is kind to Beauty and he is happy. Then Jerry is offered a job as groom by a customer and has to sell Beauty. His next master is harsh and cruel. But then Black Beauty is rescued by a horse doctor and at the doctors stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctors fields, happy and cared for.

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Illustrated Originals

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