Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

The Story of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is one of the best story's ive ever read (along with J.R.R. Tolkiens "The Hobbit" [see my opinion on that!]). As I mentioned in my The Hobbit opinion, I am not (and never have been) a girl for reading stories, I simply cant see the point in getting a book from the library about a fictional being, when the 3 week loan could have been spent reading a book about quantum physics, genetic engineering, ionic bonding, etc! So on the whole I never read these books. Infact in my life ive only read about 6; "The Hobbit" "Animal Farm" by George Orwell "Mayor of Casterbridge" by ...

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell has to be one of my all time favourite books, and it's one I still can't read without a hint of a tear forming on the last couple of pages.. oh.. even as I'm thinking about it now, I'm getting a welling in the tearducts.. hmm.. Back to the book, which has been interpreted in countless ways for films, series, cartoons.. It is the story of a horse, Black Beauty, and is written in the first person (or should that be first horse.. sorry, I couldn't resist), and tells his tale from foalhood with the kindly farmer, to his first sale, and subsequent moves through the stewardship of various owners. ...