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This popular classic by Anna Sewell is the story of a beautiful black horse whose life is affected by the ever changing circumstances surrounding the lives of its various owners. The story is written from the viewpoint of the horse. While being sold to one owner or the next Black Beauty's life is touched by pride, adventure and even sadness, but above all, it's touched by love. This marvelous story remains timeless and is still enjoyed by both children and adults.

Black Beauty spent her youthful days grazing in grassy meadows, with ponds of clear water, shade trees and apples. But life for her was not always meadows and shade trees, but a life of work and hoping some day soon to return to the meadows with her old friends under the apple trees.

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the 19th century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.

Black Beauty, The Autobiography of a Horse, was written in 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. The book became an immediate bestseller and is one of the best-selling books of all time. In addition to being a wonderful story for both children and adults, it teaches both animal welfare, and how to treat people and animals with kindness, sympathy and respect.

Listen to Black Beauty with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Lessons in life, human nature, and compassion, though the eyes of our unlikely hero - a horse that goes by the name of Black Beauty.

Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era.

A beautiful horse grows from a young foal into a working cab-puller, journeying from the fields where he was born to the streets of London. This charming family favourite about kindness and empathy is narrated by journalist and presenter Angela Rippon....

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.View ...

Black Beauty is born with a fine coat, a white foot, and a silver star on his forehead. As a foal he spends the days with his mother in an idyllic paradise until a vicious groom injures him, and his beloved owners have no choice but to sell him. As he passes from owner to owner he faces cruelty and hardship, as well as compassion and kindness. Through it all–all his struggles to survive–Black Beauty refuses to let his spirit be broken. Will he ever find the happiness and peace he craves?

Relive the beloved tale of "Black Beauty," the touching story of a horse's life from his own perspective. This podcast emphasizes themes of kindness, empathy, and the bond between humans and animals, captivating listeners with its emotional depth.

Hörspiel um das berühmte schwarze Pferd nach der Novelle von Anna Sewell und der beliebten Fernsehserie von Mark Tyler in der Bearbeitung von Margarita Meister. Hier hört ihr Folge 1: "Black Beauty".