Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna
Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her
life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with
Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her
first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.
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“Black Beauty” Plot Summary:
The story is narrated in the first person as
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 lending the novel a
good deal of verisimilitude.
The book describes conditions among London horse-drawn taxicab drivers, including the financial
hardship caused to them by high licence fees and low, legally fixed fares. A page footnote in some
editions says that soon after the book was published, the difference between
6-day taxicab licences (not allowed to trade on Sundays) and 7-day taxicab
licences (allowed to trade on Sundays) was abolished and the taxicab licence
fee was much reduced.
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