![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. All of this meant horses were both exalted and often pushed past the point of exhaustion.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Black Beauty Author Anna Sewell And they were also seen as a measure of wealth the way one rode atop a stiffly controlled horse could convey style and stature. Black Beauty was born at a time when horse power fueled almost everything: wars, agriculture, transportation, construction and factory work. His wise observations and unvarnished candor reveal much about both human nature and animal suffering. ![]() Sewell wanted the reader to see the world from a horse's point of view and so Black Beauty tells his own story in these pages. With vivid detail and simple, yet lyrical prose, Black Beauty describes both the cruelty and kindness that an ebony-colored horse experiences through his lifetime - from the open pastures in the English countryside to the cobblestone grit of 19th-century England. ![]() Generations of children and adults have loved this book. NPR's Backseat Book Club is back! And we begin this round of reading adventures with a cherished classic: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. "The automobile was invented and horses became pets, companion animals, leisure animals and so in general they became better treated. "The best thing that ever happened to horses was that they ceased to be the automobiles and trucks of their day," says author Jane Smiley. ![]()
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