Black Beauty (French Edition) - Softcover

Sewell, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544617089 ISBN 13: 9781544617084

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The story of this novel 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1544617089
• ISBN 13: 9781544617084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144