| Black Beauty Contributor(s): Sewell, Anna (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798729636723 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
| Lexile Measure: 850 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.41 lbs) 142 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 foal 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 behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitudeThe book describes conditions among London horse-drawn taxicab drivers, including the financial hardship caused to them by high license 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 licenses and 7 day taxicab licenses was abolished and the taxicab license fee was much reduced. |