Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)
Anna Sewell
49 chapters · 6 h 15 min · English
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023), Kristin LeMoine, Brad Bush, Betsie Bush, Fox in the Stars, Judith Brown and others
Animals & Nature
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Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a high-bred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, 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. (Summary from wikipedia.org)
Chapters
1 Chapter 01: My Early Home 5 min 2 Chapter 02: The Hunt 7 min 3 Chapter 03: My Breaking In 9 min 4 Chapter 04: Birtwick Park 6 min 5 Chapter 05: A Fair Start 7 min 6 Chapter 06: Liberty 4 min 7 Chapter 07: Ginger 10 min 8 Chapter 08: Ginger's Story Continued 8 min 9 Chapter 09: Merrylegs 6 min 10 Chapter 10: A Talk in the Orchard 12 min 11 Chapter 11: Plain Speaking 6 min 12 Chapter 12: A Stormy Day 8 min 13 Chapter 13: The Devil's Trade Mark 5 min 14 Chapter 14: James Howard 5 min 15 Chapter 15: The Old Hostler 5 min 16 Chapter 16: The Fire 8 min 17 Chapter 17: John Manly's Talk 7 min 18 Chapter 18: Going for the Doctor 8 min 19 Chapter 19: Only Ignorance 5 min 20 Chapter 20: Joe Green 6 min 21 Chapter 21: The Parting 7 min 22 Chapter 22: Earlshall 9 min 23 Chapter 23: A Strike for Liberty 8 min 24 Chapter 24: The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse 14 min 25 Chapter 25: Reuben Smith 8 min 26 Chapter 26: How It Ended 7 min 27 Chapter 27: Ruined and Going Downhill 6 min 28 Chapter 28: A Job Horse and His Drivers 7 min 29 Chapter 29: Cockneys 14 min 30 Chapter 30: A Thief 6 min 31 Chapter 31: A Humbug 7 min 32 Chapter 32: A Horse Fair 8 min 33 Chapter 33: A London Cab Horse 8 min 34 Chapter 34: An Old War Horse 11 min 35 Chapter 35: Jerry Barker 11 min 36 Chapter 36: The Sunday Cab 11 min 37 Chapter 37: The Golden Rule 8 min 38 Chapter 38: Dolly and a Real Gentleman 8 min 39 Chapter 39: Seedy Sam 8 min 40 Chapter 40: Poor Ginger 5 min 41 Chapter 41: The Butcher 7 min 42 Chapter 42: The Election 3 min 43 Chapter 43: A Friend in Need 8 min 44 Chapter 44: Old Captain and His Successor 7 min 45 Chapter 45: Jerry 9 min 46 Chapter 46: Jakes and the Lady 9 min 47 Chapter 47: Hard Times 11 min 48 Chapter 48: Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie 9 min 49 Chapter 49: My Last Home 8 min
