Black Beauty
The Autobiography of a Horse

From its first publication in 1877, Black Beauty has been one of the bestloved animal stories ever written. The dramatic and heartwarming tale is told by the magnificent black horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squires estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse and his merciful rescue by two kindly old ladies. Filled with vivid anecdotes about animal intelligence, the novel derives a special magic from the love of all creatures, great and small, apparent on every page. But the books lasting impact comes from its descriptions of a human society struggling to find the goodness within itself and its plea for kindness to all creaturesa message so powerful that this favorite classic began a crusade for animal welfare that continues to this day.