BLACK BEAUTY: With 17 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.
By Anna Sewell
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.
It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become an immediate bestseller. Although initially intended for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. With Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.
Highlights of this edition are:
• 17 illustrations and photos.
• A free web link to the full-length audio recording of the book – to either listen to online, or download.
• It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your nook reader.
• An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the nook "go to" feature.
• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with nook's Text-to-Speech features.
• Plus, about the Author section.
• 282 pages (in the nook format) for a very low price.
This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended. First published in 1877.
