Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

by Anna SEWELL (1820 - 1878)

Chapter 47 – Hard Times

Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

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 highbred 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)


Listen next episodes of Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse):
Chapter 48 – Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie , Chapter 49 – My Last Home