Reviews for Black Beauty
Review - Black Beauty
I loved it as a kid because it gave me my first taste of Victorian England, a taste later developed by Dickens, Doyle, etc.
Reviewed by Roger on 1999-12-16 08:37:24
Black Beautyby Anna Sewell | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Chapter Books" |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Year of Publication: | 1877 |
| Date Read: | 08/12/1996 |
| Notes: | Black Beauty, a handsome horse, narrates the story himself. Well-born, well-bred and initially owned by kind masters, he is sold to successively crueler owners and eventually collapses from overwork and ill treatment. COMMENTS — Black Beauty was Anna Sewell’s only novel and the first major animal story in children’s literature. She wrote it “to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses.” |
| My Rating: | 7 |